On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 roart@nvg.ntnu.no wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:54:39PM -0400, maximum entropy wrote:
> > at various times in the past they worked (but without bad block
> 
> The MSCP controller takes care of that.

Not entirely. It's an interaction between the controller and the OS. The
controller automatically handles remapped bad blocks, but the system must
do the actual remapping when a new bad block is detected.
NetBSD don't do that. In Ultrix you have a special utility to do it.
Large VAXen have diagnostics programs that can do it for you (EVRLK if I
remember correctly).

	Johnny

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