On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, CyberPeasant wrote:

> > the drive is IDE or something else like ESDI because I don't have access
> > to the BIOS settings (diskette-based program lost years ago).  I tried
>   Stupid Compaq trick...^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   You might be able to get one from Compaq's website, if they actually
> have opened a tech support division. (At the time this machine was made,
> they "didn't do" tech support; "See your dealer, luser".)

Looks like their downloadable stuff is only for newer models.  I may try
calling them.

> The drive is ESDI:
> 
> This info is from the site: 
>    Linkname: SupportSource - Hard Drive Criteria Search                 
>         URL: http://www.supportsource.com/hdfind/hd.htm               

Thanks for confirming, and for the URL.

> You will probably need to run BAD144 as part of the installation.
> ST506 and some ESDI do not do automatic bad block mapping; you will
> want to enter the list of bad blocks manually. (Man bad144 on one of
> your 1.2.1 boxes).  Bad144 should be run after partitioning and before
> disklabel and newfs.

Where do I get the list of bad blocks to feed to "bad144 -a" ?

> Yeah, where there's life, there's hope. I bet sysinst won't work though.

And I was just getting to like sysinst...

Thanks for your help.

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