Re: Installing -current - RZ28 bad sectors

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

Charles H Dickman wrote:
> I have been trying to get NetBSD/VAX -current installed on my VS4000/90. 
> The install succeeded, but the resulting system would not boot because 
> there was a read error on an RZ28.
>
> So, do RZ28 do any kind of bad sector replacement internally? If the 
> answer is yes, then the disk is dead. If not how is this handled? I 
> don't see to many disk scanning utilities in NetBSD.

It's a normal SCSI drive. SCSI do bad block replacement internally.
It might be worth to try and reformat the drive, but otherwise it's toast.

        Johnny