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To: Kent Hauser <kent@tfd.com>
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Subject: Re: large IDE disks 
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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 21:08:23 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <199711201539.KAA14531@rtp.tfd.com>, Kent Hauser writes:
>
>I need some advice.
>
>I'm putting a 2.2 GB IDE disk in my laptop. The problem is the
>bad sector information. With the straightforward approach, you
>can only store 126 bad sectors. A lot more than that were found.

With a 2.2 GB disk, you don't have to think about bad sectors,
the disk drives firmware does it for you.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."