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Subject: Re: adding bad blocks using 386/ix
Keywords: SCSI BADBLOCKS
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Date: 7 Mar 90 00:38:51 GMT
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In article <7027@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) writes:
>In article <511211@nstar.UUCP> larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
>
>>   I tried adding the errors for the SCSI drive using mkpart -A <abs sector>
>>   and I get an error - No root partition...
>
>Bad blocks?  On a _SCSI_ drive?  The SCSI drives I've tried (all were various
>CDC/Imprimis) all handle the bad blocks internally and present an error-free
>appearance to the "outside world" (i.e., the SCSI bus).
>
>Did I just get lucky, or did Larry get stuck with a less-than-wonderful drive
>of some kind?

The SCSI is inherently bad-block free to the op. sys., and his problem
is not what it appears to be.
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