Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cybvax0.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!cybvax0!dbr From: dbr@cybvax0.UUCP (Douglas Robinson) Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd,net.unix-wizards Subject: formatting disks and 4.2BSD Message-ID: <248@cybvax0.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 20:55:26 EST Article-I.D.: cybvax0.248 Posted: Wed Nov 28 20:55:26 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 05:47:54 EST Distribution: net Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 27 Xref: cybvax0 net.bugs.4bsd:187 net.unix-wizards:1081 I have just become aware of a very nasty little bit of incompatibility. If you have heard of this before, please ignore this - we are relatively new to the net. We just finished formatting a new Fujitsu Eagle / SC750 combo and learned the hard way (MANY wasted hours) that: 4.2BSD wants the BAD SECTOR information in the MANUFACTURER'S AREA, NOT in the SITE AREA where the DEC and EMULEX formatters put them!!!!!!!!!! 4.2BSD does NOT recognize the information put down by the DEC and EMULEX formatters! You have to print them out using the DEC/EMULEX formatter and then enter them by hand via bad144(8). This little tidbit of information appears NOWHERE in the documentation that was distributed to us with 4.2BSD!!! NOT only that, but when bad144(8) runs, it wipes out the information in the SITE AREA (zero's it). (We learned this due to a new formatter from EMULEX that prints out the two areas separately!!) -- Doug Robinson Jobs don't kill programmers... programmers kill jobs! Cybermation, Inc. 617/492-8810 377 Putnam Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 (USA) ...!{mit-eddie, harvard, mirror}!cybvax0!dbr