badblock
uunet!bria!mike
uunet!bria!mike
Mon Feb 25 10:53:14 AEST 1991
In an article, david at talgras.UUCP (David Hoopes) writes:
>I seem to have a new bad block on my hard drive. Everytime I try to backup
>a particular file I get the wd error message indicating that a block could
>not be read. It is alway the same block.
>My question is how can I add this block to the bad block list without
>repartioning the disk?
>I am using SCO Xenix 2.3.2 386.
You can use /etc/badtrk to mark these bad tracks. You won't have to
repartition *unless* the bad spot is in the boot blocks, or your bad
track table is full.
Read up on badtrk(ADM) in your Installation and Maintenance manual.
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Michael Stefanik, MGI Inc., Los Angeles| Opinions stated are not even my own.
Title of the week: Systems Engineer | UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike
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