SHARKEY@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Scott A. Sharkey) (06/08/90)
Well In my version of Minix (1.3, and counting!) badblocks doesn't work with blocks > 8192. It takes them all right, but they are not properly marked, cause as soon as I write to one, I get unrecoverable errors on blocks I told badblocks to mark. Does anyone have a fix relative to 1.3? I'm trying to catch up to 1.5, but can't get past some of these bad spots on my disk!
ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) (06/08/90)
In article <12595957453016@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu>, SHARKEY@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Scott A. Sharkey) writes: > Well In my version of Minix (1.3, and counting!) badblocks doesn't work with > blocks > 8192. It takes them all right, but they are not properly marked, cause > as soon as I write to one, I get unrecoverable errors on blocks I told badblocks > to mark. Does anyone have a fix relative to 1.3? I'm trying to catch up to > 1.5, but can't get past some of these bad spots on my disk! After you do a 'badblocks', do an fsck. Fsck will fix the free zone bitmap. I thought someone posted a fix for badblocks a while back, though. -- Guy Helmer ...!bigtex!loft386!dsuvax!ghelmer DSU Computing Services ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp, helmer@sdnet.bitnet Small is beautiful, but looks aren't everything...