Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 18:59:26 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: freebsd@isvara.net Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd0s1e hard errors Message-ID: <199802061759.SAA01188@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <34DACF35.8C9CE0C7@challenge.isvara.net> from "freebsd@isvara.net" at "Feb 6, 98 08:52:05 am"
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As freebsd@isvara.net wrote... > Yoah! > > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > 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? > > IMHO: > There is only *very few* IDE discs used today which don't remap the data > over media defects. All these harddiscs are often quite small - hell, > even my old 40MB Conner and 80MB Quantum harddiscs have defect > management. RLL, ESDI and MFM disks are REALLY old, small and slow. Oh? I've a no-budget Webserver running on a 350 Mb ESDI. Another machine uses a 650Mb ESDI. There have been AFAIK 1Gb ESDI drives. > Of course, you can't put much on small harddiscs anyway, so anyone using Don't think 'anyone' is the same as yourself.... > FreeBSD or any other unix flavour will probably have >170MB (at least) > of IDE storage (or SCSI), therefore they will have automatic defect > management. Not true. _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' --------------- Support your local daemons: run [Free,Net,Open]BSD Unix --
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