On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Erno Palonheimo wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> is it really so that there is no bad-block management in NetBSD? I
> understood it to be so after reading the documentation. It would be quite
> important feature, for example I am able to use only one of my five hard
> disks as all the rest of them have just couple of bad blocks, but cannot
> be used because the bad blocks cannot be avoided, except as scratch disks.
> But, I'd like to have one RD54 for /usr, other for /usr/local, a RD53 for
> swap, root and /var and other for /usr/home. Is it possible to implement
> this feature in near future, if it isn't there already?
> 
>    Erno Palonheimo -x- esp@stip.net -x- GSM +358400615281
> 
> 0. It doesn't matter to you if someone else's computer is faster because
>    you know your system could smash theirs flat if it fell over on it.

I had one RD54 in my VS2000. It developed some bad blocks and VMS refused
to startup and the disk made all sorts of weird noises. Then I just did a
format of the disk in the console, (T ??). And now it works just fine with
NetBSD. 


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