sjb@dalek.UUCP (Seth J. Bradley) (09/09/88)
I've got a couple of questions that maybe someone out there can help me with. 1. I have been unable to get mailx to initialize with either /usr/lib/mailx/mailx.rc or ~/.mailrc, both of which should work according to the documentation. What's wrong? 2. The bad block scanning routine in fdisk only does one scan. Also, showbad doesn't show anything on a scanned disk. How can I be really sure that I've picked up all the bad blocks? Is there any any public domain software out there that gives greater assurance? Thanks in Advance! -- Seth J. Bradley UUCP: uunet!lll-winken!dalek!sjb Internet: lll-winken.llnl.gov!dalek!sjb
jmsully@uport.UUCP (John M. Sully) (09/10/88)
In article <403@dalek.UUCP> sjb@dalek.UUCP (Seth J. Bradley) writes: >1. I have been unable to get mailx to initialize with >either /usr/lib/mailx/mailx.rc or ~/.mailrc, both of >which should work according to the documentation. >What's wrong? Make sure that the files are readable by group "mail". Both of these facilities are known to work more or less properly -- although they will not affect delivery of mail (done through rmail) only sending and reading. >2. The bad block scanning routine in fdisk only >does one scan. Also, showbad doesn't show anything >on a scanned disk. How can I be really sure that >I've picked up all the bad blocks? Is there any >any public domain software out there that gives >greater assurance? The fdisk bad block scanning does only a single read only scan of the disk and therefore is not really as effective as it might be. If showbad does not show any tracks in the bad track map that means that no bad tracks were detected by fdisk during the scan. The best thing to do is to type in the bad track map supplied with your drive and to then use fdisk to pick up any additional offending tracks. Although I do not know of any public domain software which does media analysis, I can heartily recommend SpeedStor's disk analysis program which does an excellent job. John Sully