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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re: UDA50 and bad blocks (and a bug in dump - 4.2BSD)
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Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 06:02:40 EDT
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Whoops...

>From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
>Fortunately an RA81 RCT holds over 600 sectors.

This is true, but (I just checked yesterday) is off by two orders
of magnitude.  An RA81 has an incredible 17528 replacement sectors!
Talk about planning ahead....

Gyre (one of our 750s) has 308 bad blocks, 9 unusable replacement
blocks, and 17211 spares still available on its single RA81.
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