Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ico!ism780c!darryl From: darryl@ism780c.isc.com (Darryl Richman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: adding bad blocks using 386/ix Message-ID: <39845@ism780c.isc.com> Date: 10 Mar 90 01:38:41 GMT References: <511211@nstar.UUCP> <39560@ism780c.isc.com> <1990Mar6.141232.668@virtech.uucp> Reply-To: darryl@ism780c.UUCP (Darryl Richman) Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA Lines: 17 In article <1990Mar6.141232.668@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes: "In article <39560@ism780c.isc.com> darryl@ism780c.UUCP (Darryl Richman) writes: ">This is a better approach than automatically remapping because that ">prevents the user from attempting to reread the bad sector and possibly ">retrieving the data. " "PLEASE do not add automatic remapping of bad blocks to 386/ix. Once upon a Clearly, I didn't make myself understood. I merely mentioned this possibility in passing; we have no intention of doing it. Sorry. --Darryl Richman -- Copyright (c) 1990 Darryl Richman The views expressed are the author's alone darryl@ism780c.isc.com INTERACTIVE Systems Corp.-A Kodak Company "For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, elegant, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken