Re: Installing -current - RZ28 bad sectors

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost>]

Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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.
> 
Depending on where the read error is, it might be possible to use badsect to
avoid using the bad sector.

-- Ragge