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Date:      Sat, 5 Oct 1996 23:20:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>
To:        sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Help! /bin/csh is gone!
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.93.961005231342.17057B-100000@helmholtz>
In-Reply-To: <7249.844526690@verdi.nethelp.no>

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On Sat, 5 Oct 1996 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:

> > Try turning on bad sector reallocation.  Have a look into the FAQ
> > about the required procedure (search for the term ``AWRE'').  Bad
> > sectors are quite normal on a magnetic storage medium, and the vendor
> > should have reserved enough replacement storage.
> > 
> > Btw., my new Seacrate ST32155N turns out to be the first disk i've
> > ever seen that has it enabled by default.
> 
> I bought an IBM 2.16 GByte SCSI-disk (Ultrastar ES) a couple of weeks
> ago - it also had reallocation turned on by default. I was pleasantly
> surprised.
> 

And, as I've just learned, so does my Quantum XP32150. But, alas my
Seagate ST51080N did not.  

Tom





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