dave@pmafire.UUCP (Dave Remien) (08/04/89)
In article <2342@wyse.wyse.com> bob@wyse.UUCP (Bob McGowen Wyse Technology Training) writes: >Regarding the 64 bad sectors, is this per system (across all hard disks), >per hard disk or per filesystem. [stuff deleted] Microport, and Bell Tech both supported a max of *56* bad sectors on an entire disk. The number in mkpart(1m) is given as 62, but everything blows up if you get past 56. (I found this out as I was going thru 3 ESDI controller cards, trying to get a Maxtor 4380E to run under Microport). Interestingly enough, the man page for V/386 3.2 mkpart(1m) still indicates that 62 is the max, in spite of the "automatic" bad sector sparing. BTW, I wound up with a DTC 6280 controller with my Maxtor (128 bad sectors 8-( ), and it works great, though I'd recommend not using uPort's mkpart to add or check on bad sectors; it starts scribbling all over the place and trashes the root file system beyond recovery. I made it non-executable, just to keep myself from making a mess again 8-). Disclaimer - I'm just a user, don't work for 'em. -- Dave Remien - WINCO Computer Eng. Group -{uunet | bigtex}!pmafire!dave- "And who's birthday is today?" "Why, nobody, Hugh" (Firesign "In history, Patty, before they changed the water...." Theater)