On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, J.S. Havard wrote:

> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Now how do you do that on a uVax-II?

I am lucky enough to have access to a TK-50 -tape that includes a
"customer disk drive formatter" from Digital.. that is what i use..

I have also formatted rd53:s and 54:s that had bad blocks, and got them
working under netbsd in a MVII. If i have understood the situation
correctly, the badblock management at this level is handled by the
intelligent drive interface, rather than the operating system, and that
the OS only has to deal with blocks that go bad AFTER the last drive
formatting..

Am i right or just lucky that i haven't happened to use any of the bad
blocks yet?





/Ronny Svedman