Subject: bad144 or badsect?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Ingolf Koch <ingolf@knuut.de>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/06/2000 21:57:14
Hi,

as the documentation on bad block handling is quite sparse
(at least for bad144(8)) I need some input. I had the following
errors:

wd0a:  uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 38864 of 38864-38879
	(wd0 bn 38927; cn 38 tn 9 sn 56), retrying
[...]
wd0a:  uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 38866 of 38866-38867
	(wd0 bn 38929; cn 38 tn 9 sn 58), retrying
[...]
wd0a:  uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 38867 of 38866-38867
	(wd0 bn 38930; cn 38 tn 9 sn 59), retrying
[...]

It turns out that only a few times, the retried access
succeeded (wd0: soft error (corrected)), so I'd like to
mark the blocks as bad.

From the badsect(8) man page, I read that bad144(8) should
be preferred. How should I invoke bad144 in this case (i.e.
what arguments should I supply to bad144)?

    Ingolf
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