thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) (05/09/90)
I received a phone call today from another UNIXPC user who has, putting it kindly, some "flaky" HDs in that they have a lot of known bad sectors. His question was whether it's possible to increase the size of the HD's bad block table to accomodate the excessive number of bad sectors. The "iv" description file permits specifying the size of the bad block table using the "badblocktable" keyword followed by the number of blocks to be used expressed in terms of 1024-byte logical "blocks." QUESTION: has anyone actually tested whether a "badblocktable" size greater than 1 actually works? He's presently running 3.51 and stated that one of his drives has some 118 bad sectors and that another has over 128 bad sectors; he wants to use these drives on his UNIXPC. (Need I say that they're Seagate ST251 drives? :-) Thanks in advance for any insights or comments on this question. Thad Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]