Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 21:39:07 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange error message Message-ID: <199710080339.VAA08075@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971007201458.18192B-100000@hobbes.saturn-tech.com> References: <199710061544.JAA00317@rocky.mt.sri.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95.971007201458.18192B-100000@hobbes.saturn-tech.com>
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Doug Russell writes: > > On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Nate Williams wrote: > > > single-user and possibly tar up /etc (hopefully the error isn't in > > there), and also dump /usr. I might be able to restore it *IF* DOS can > > somehow do bad-block re-allocation. > > What drive is it? Usually a low-level format will automatically map out > all the nasties on the drive. Depending on the drive, the manufacturer > probably either has a special format utility, or if not, you should be > able to pop it into a machine with an old low level routine in ROM (as > long as it truly supports the actual number of cylinders, heads, etc) that > the drive has, and do it that way. This is a laptop, so I don't know of any 'machine' to throw it into. > Most DOS-based utilities won't work because of limitations on their INT-13 > handling of the disk (can't do more than 1024 cylinders, etc), although > there is probably something around somewhere that can do it right. I > suppose a quick program to talk directly to the drive would work too. It'd be too much work to cobble something up. I'd be more likely to have them buy me a new drive, since the thing is only 810MB. Nate
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