jon@gaia.UUCP (Jonathan Corbet) (03/02/88)
Just to add to the list of people who have reported in: I have a Western Digital "1003-WA2" controller, and a Seagate 4051 drive. I have tried three different disks as the second disk, and got errors (on both drives) each time. It is a truly obnoxious problem, complicated by the fact that Microport unix, when confronted with a read error, seems to put the block in question into the buffer cache anyway. Thus the trashed block (which is fine on the disk) becomes the "official" block, and, if modified, gets written back to the drive. Very poor behavior, if you ask me. jon -- Jonathan Corbet {rutgers | ames | gatech}!hao!gaia!jon {uunet | ucbvax | allegra | cbosgd}!nbires!gaia!jon