Subject: Re: Bad Blocks?
To: Michael K. Sanders <msanders@confusion.net>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/29/1995 21:12:58
> Is there a way to map bad blocks on a SCSI disk under NetBSD? I have
> a Quantum Empire 2100S attached to a sparc IPC running -current and
> fsck gets a 'medium error' for two of the blocks on the disk. I've
> attached the same drive to an IPC with SunOS, hoping format(8) 
> might help but it couldn't find the drive. scsi-probe from the 
> PROM listed it, but format didn't see it... Suggestions?

SunOS format normally finds any disk that the kernel knows about. Does
the disk appear in the SunOS probe messages?
Once you can select the disk, you need an entry for it in /etc/format.dat
or manually type in its geometry.

-pk