In article <199707130044.UAA00442@jfwhome.funhouse.com>,
	"John F. Woods" <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com> writes:
> If the sector is discovered bad during a write, that's not a problem;

For the old seagate harddisk it is:

Jul 13 23:21:03 jehova /netbsd: wd0e: hard error writing fsbn 227651 of 227648-227679 (wd0 bn 338915; cn 557 tn 6 sn 31)

[Yes, I'm already searching for a replacement.]

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