Subject: RE: bad144 on IDE disks
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Jenkins, Graham K \[IBM GSA\] <Graham.K.Jenkins@team.telstra.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/18/2001 09:11:58
> >>I happen to be browsing my Wasabi 1.5 release notes, and this is stated
> >>(page 8 of the little CD booklet)
> >>
> >>"The Install program will automatically reserve space for bad144 tables"
> >>
> >>this is during them talking about formatting disk with sysinst. So,
> question
> >>is, does it really reserve the space, and thus you CAN use sysinst to
> >>install and have it automatically reserve the bad144 space?
> 
	>Hey, wow, I didn't know that.  I'm wondering if it reserves the
space
	>on the end of the c or the d partition, though.

	Still doesn't help if disk had some bad sectors when it is first
	formatted during 'sysinst' execution ..

	G.