Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 13:25:21 -0500 From: "Alfred Perlstein" <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu> To: <alk@pobox.com>, <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: wd0s1e hard errors Message-ID: <005f01bd3263$6fb00680$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu>
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please don't retire bad144, i try not to use disks that are dying, however someon just getting into freebsd might have a drive that has a small imperfection on it and would like to use that drive... -Alfred >: > Should bad144 be retired? >: >: Why, have you come up with a new "media perfection layer" which >: sits in Julian's new slice code under devfs to replace it so you >: can still use WD1007 ESDI controllers, MFM, RLL, and other drives >: that don't support automatic bad sector forwarding? > >No, but rather because (or so I hypothesize) these devices reside >overwhelmingly in systems which will never be upgraded to 3.x, and >because there is benefit to be gained from desupport, as recent >traffic regarding biosboot indicates. > >: Personally, I think if bad144 is retired, you might as well retire >: wd drives that don't have LBA modes like SCSI has. After all, "all >: modern devices" see drives as a linear array of sectors which never >: go bad, right? > >This is the persistent claim of the, presumed, cognoscenti whenever >anyone less informed makes an inquiry about how to deal with bad >sectors. > >
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