In message <9510292012.AA07904@cs.few.eur.nl>, Paul Kranenburg writes:
> > 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.
> 

Can this be done in NetBSD?  Don't our drivers support bad144?

_wb