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From: support@ism780c.isc.com (Support account)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Disk shadowing or striping under 386/ix
Message-ID: <39685@ism780c.isc.com>
Date: 7 Mar 90 18:35:58 GMT
References: <1990Mar6.221901.5242@actrix.co.nz>
Reply-To: support@ism780c.UUCP (Support account)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <1990Mar6.221901.5242@actrix.co.nz> paul@actrix.co.nz (Actrix Super User) writes:
>Incidentally, I'm also trying (somewhat belatedly) to install 386/ix
>on an HP Vectra 25/C.  It keeps failing soon after the media surface
>analysis, with excessive bad sectors, and refuses to install.  I have

This problem occurs because HP marks whole tracks rather than
just sectors bad. If a significant number of sectors are bad,
this can quickly fill up the table whose max number of bad sectors
has been increased to approximately 250 in the V2.0 series of
386/ix.

HP has a workaround diskette.

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