sundar@eddie.MIT.EDU (Sundar Narasimhan) (08/30/87)
We have a Vax 11/750 running 4.2 BSD. One of our CDC9772 drives has bad blocks in the replacement sector area -- We have reformatted the drive once, but still keep having to put dummy entries in the bad block table to get around the bad areas. Does anyone have a fix to the hp driver to finally FIX this? Does 4.3 fix this problem? (fsck goes into an infinite loop -- revectoring ad infinitum when it hits a bad block). Another problem we are having of late is that a particular inode keeps showing up as 'Partially allocated'. Fsck clears and reports the problem as having been fixed. We boot the machine and the machine crashes a short while later with a 'dup inode' panic in 'ialloc()'. Does anyone know why this problem keeps persisting? Thanks for any help. Please respond to sundar@wheaties.ai.mit.edu, sundar@eddie.mit.edu sundar@oz.ai.mit.edu or sundar@ai.ai.mit.edu mit-eddie!mit-hermes!sundar or to the newsgroup.