steveg@ritcsh.UUCP (in stereo where available) (05/25/88)
I am trying to bring up a AT&T UNIX PC 7300 system, that has been floating around our department. No one has a use for it so it is my turn to learn and play around with a UNIX machine. The problem (I am not sure if it is a problem) I am having is that when I try to init the harddisk and run a surface test, it finds more than 126 (I think that is the number) bad blocks and complains that it can not write to the bad block table. Well is there a way to make the table bigger? Any suggestions on how I should handle this. Yes this means I am running disk 1 of 13 to install the system. -- ___ ___ ___ Steve Good ...uunet!ccicpg!cci632!ritcsh!steveg |@/o o\@| @/- -\@ @/o o\@ Network Administrator BITNET%"SNGDCO@RITVAXD" | \ o / | / o \ \/-\/ Rochester Institute of Technology (716)475-2702 \ --- / | --- | /---\ "I hear nothing, I see nothing, I say nothing" Shultz
slocum@hi-csc.UUCP (Brett Slocum) (05/26/88)
In article <2582@ritcsh.UUCP> steveg@ritcsh.UUCP (Steve Good -- ISC) writes: >The problem (I am not sure if it is a problem) I am having is that when >I try to init the harddisk and run a surface test, it finds more than 126 >(I think that is the number) bad blocks and complains that it can not >write to the bad block table. I had this problem when I first got my machine. What it means is that your hard disk is shot and needs to be replaced. Luckily mine was still under warranty. It sounds like yours isn't. What probably happened was that someone forgot to park the heads before moving the machine. (Naughty, naughty!) I don't know what the going rate is for the proper hard drives, but I have seen numerous accounts on here about replacing them. Good luck, you'll need it! -- Brett Slocum UUCP: ...{uunet,ihnp4!umn-cs}!hi-csc!slocum Arpa: hi-csc!slocum@umn-cs.arpa "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."