dbr@cybvax0.UUCP (Douglas Robinson) (11/29/84)
I have just become aware of a very nasty little bit of incompatibility.
If you have heard of this before, please ignore this - we are relatively
new to the net.
We just finished formatting a new Fujitsu Eagle / SC750 combo and learned
the hard way (MANY wasted hours) that:
4.2BSD wants the BAD SECTOR information in the MANUFACTURER'S AREA, NOT
in the SITE AREA where the DEC and EMULEX formatters put them!!!!!!!!!!
4.2BSD does NOT recognize the information put down by the DEC and EMULEX
formatters! You have to print them out using the DEC/EMULEX formatter
and then enter them by hand via bad144(8). This little tidbit of
information appears NOWHERE in the documentation that was distributed to
us with 4.2BSD!!!
NOT only that, but when bad144(8) runs, it wipes out the information in
the SITE AREA (zero's it).
(We learned this due to a new formatter from EMULEX that prints out the
two areas separately!!)
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...!{mit-eddie, harvard, mirror}!cybvax0!dbrscottha@azure.UUCP (Scott Hankerson) (12/05/84)
In article <248@cybvax0.UUCP> dbr@cybvax0.UUCP (Douglas Robinson) writes: > >4.2BSD wants the BAD SECTOR information in the MANUFACTURER'S AREA, NOT >in the SITE AREA where the DEC and EMULEX formatters put them!!!!!!!!!! >4.2BSD does NOT recognize the information put down by the DEC and EMULEX >formatters! You have to print them out using the DEC/EMULEX formatter >and then enter them by hand via bad144(8). This little tidbit of >information appears NOWHERE in the documentation that was distributed to >us with 4.2BSD!!! Instead of using the DEC or EMULEX formatter, use the 4.2 formatter. The 4.2 formatter forwards the bad blocks the correct area for 4.2BSD. I'm surprised that the DEC formatter doesn't put the bad blocks in the same place, especially when the place that Berkeley puts them corresponds to the DEC standard 144.
sid@linus.UUCP (Sid Stuart) (12/18/84)
>In article <248@cybvax0.UUCP> dbr@cybvax0.UUCP (Douglas Robinson) writes: > >4.2BSD wants the BAD SECTOR information in the MANUFACTURER'S AREA, NOT >in the SITE AREA where the DEC and EMULEX formatters put them!!!!!!!!!! >4.2BSD does NOT recognize the information put down by the DEC and EMULEX >formatters! You have to print them out using the DEC/EMULEX formatter >and then enter them by hand via bad144(8). This little tidbit of >information appears NOWHERE in the documentation that was distributed to >us with 4.2BSD!!! > All right guys, I am confused. I formatted my Eagle with the Emulex formatter when I was running 4.1. I switched over to 4.2 without reformatting my disks and they still work. Has emulex come out with a new gonzo formatter? Doug, are you sure of the procedure you used to format the disks? This situation sounds a little bizzare to me, does anyone have any more in depth information before I spend a weekend reformatting my eagle just to see what happens? Does anyone have the source to the formatter? Berkeley seems to have ommited it on our distribution. sid at linus doug, I live at 617-271-2839 I would be interested in finding out more about this.