Subject: Re: Ahh, fudge. Now the drive's dead.
To: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/28/1998 19:43:17
> 
> On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> 
> > Boris Gjenero <bgjenero@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> > > I've tried that, though I can't say I've been too successful.  It would
> > > be a lot of trouble, and you do need to be lucky.  With a few you stand
> > > a chance, but if there are more, some will probably end up in the inode
> > > data.  I guess if they are in the inode data you can fsck with different
> > > parameters or partitioning and hope they're in files.  You can have
> > > hours of fun this way.  :-) 
> >
> > Wouldn't it be better to spend those hours writing the bad144 support code for
> > the driver in question?
> > 
> 	If you have the machine functional, the disk space available, and
> 	the skills necessary, then certainly...
> 
Actually, the RD disk shouldn't use BAD144 but another way of bad block
forwarding; the same as RA disks use. In that case a RD disk from a MV2000
can be put directly into a MVII with RQDX3, otherwise it won't work if 
there are bad blocks on it.

-- Ragge