Bad Block Handling

J. Steven Harrison steve at jack.sns.com
Sun Jan 7 13:26:54 AEST 1990


Hi Netland,

Well here I go!  I need some help from thos out there knowledgeable.

Since this is critical I thought I'd ask the net before plunging in and
ruining my disk drive!

I have encountered a bad block on a 3B1 and I would like to map it out.
My docs mention a program called update(1) but I don't have it. So
as I read the docs I should be able to do the following steps

1.  iv -d /dev/rfp000 > foo

2. Add the new baad block to the file foo.

3. iv -u /dev/rfp000 foo

Is this the correct procedure or have I missed a man page somewhere?

Any help will be most appreciated.  

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