david@walking.pub.uu.oz.au (David Le Blanc) (12/22/90)
I receive some help for my plea.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Re: a590 bad blocks and corruption woes >It sounds like you have your drive partitioned incorrectly. If you >set HiCyl to too high a value, you may be writing to cylinders the >drive thinks are free for mapping out bad blocks. This is just an > Thanks, I retracked the partition two cylinders from the end of the disk, and the problems *appear* to have vanished. Why *two* cylinders? Playing around with a disk editor, I found the drive would not let me directly read the last two cylinders!! (And I wouldnt have looked if you hadn't suggested it...:) >educated guess based on what little information you gave. What more could I have said? Apart from listing the drive geometry and partition info that is... >carson@close.cs.columbia.edu (preferred) | Carson Gaspar >cag4@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (forwards to above) | BIX: cgaspar Thanks again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Re: A590 Woes >The FFS is on the RDB of the A-590, and you update it from 0 to 1, NOT >"36"!! You do this in the "Add/Update Filesystems" screen. I don't tknow >what changing the version number to 36 will do but I'm surprised it let you >try even. Why? Who made this rule? Are you serious? Do you really believe it helps? Why wouldnt the drive let me make it 36? Its just an integer... Geez...:-)E) I did change it to 1 finally, and big deal, no difference. > >Not sure what can happen with this, or if it's causing your problems, but >just pointing that out. And why not CHECK to see if your location zero is >zero? Even if you don't know how, simply run a known-buggy program which >will show up any corruption of location zero. And blow the machine away? Bugger off. I wrote a fix590 program that tells me if it *had* to patch location zero. therefore, if it is silent, then location zero was NULL, (which it never is.) >|FIDO point address 1:104/421.2, bscott@isis.cs.du.edu, or BBS (303)424-9831| *** :-)E) A large toothy smile??? Fangs?? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Le Blanc UUCP (home) : eyrie!walking!david@labtam@munnari.oz david@walking ACSNET (work) : david@dogmelb.dog@munnari.oz CSIRO Division of Geomechanics "Life? Dont talk to ME about life.. " : Marvin the paranoid android. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------