Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org> wrote:
> "Brad Henry" wrote:

>> Hey everyone, this isn't directly a pmax question, but it's giving me
>> problems and i'm not sure what to do here.

> Well, it is a pmax problem if you having problems running a command on a
> pmax :-)

>> I have a 1gb seagate scsi hd in my decstation 5000/120 running 1.4.1, and
>> /usr (/dev/rz3d) has a bad block at 2102406.
>>
>> [[ scsictl problems deleted ]]

> The problem is that scsictl using the MI SCSI layer, and 1.4.1 on the
> pmax (or even -current) doesn't support MI SCSI yet.

> Prehaps the easiest short-term solution is that if the block is in a
> known file is to move that file somewhere safe and make it mode 000.

> Another option is to try Tohru Nishimura's test MI SCSI kernel at
> ftp.aist-nara.ac.jp:~ftp/pub/personal/nisimura/newasc.tgz.  This isn't
> production code yet though...

> Yet another option is to put the disk on a box with MI scsi (ie, just
> about every other architecture that NetBSD supports) and use scsictl on
> that box.

how about badsect ? - i run an old disk with a badsected block for
a long time now ...

t

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