Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!ericg From: ericg@sco.COM (Mwa ha ha) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: SCO and hard disk errors Keywords: sco,hard disk,errors,bad handling Message-ID: <694@nod2sco> Date: 27 Jun 88 17:22:37 GMT References: <51@libove.UUCP> Reply-To: ericg@sco.COM (Mwa ha ha) Distribution: comp Organization: SCO Quality Assurance Lines: 36 root@libove.UUCP (The Super User) wrote in article <51@libove.UUCP>: > >The 20 meg drive has no flaws, but the 80 meg drive has a few bad tracks. >The Xenix bad track (badtrk) utility does not mark them all; it, like all If you know that there were not some included after the scan, the correct action to take is to enter them manually from the flaw map. In fact, if you have a flaw map, don't even bother with the scan -- just enter the flaws manually. >a great deal of trouble with floppies - the Xenix utilities will often >write to a bad spot on a floppy (assuming that it *will* hold out, instead >of the more likely case that it will *not*) ... but anyway... The floppy driver assumes error-free floppies -- so bad writes/reads will retry quite a bit. > >So, often I am running something disk intensive and the system starts >thrashing; that is, I hear the hard drive making its characteristic "seek >to root, attempt to seek to target sector again" noise. Do you get any console error messages at this point? If so, you can just take the cyl/track numbers and add them into the badtrack table. >Jay Libove Internet: libove@cs.cmu.edu libove@andrew.cmu.edu >5313 Ellsworth Avenue formtek!ditka!libove!libove@pt.cs.cmu.edu >Pittsburgh, PA 15232 UUCP: cmucspt!formtek!ditka!libove!libove >(412) 621-9649 cadre!pitt!darth!libove!libove -- Eric Griswold |\*/ \*/ \*/ \*/ \*/ \*/ \*/ \*/ \*/ \*| "When Zen is outlawed | ericg@sco.COM | I do not speak for SCO. I barely | only outlaws will | uunet!sco!ericg| have enough room for my own opinions.| practice Zen" - Zippy | --------------/ \------------------------------------/ \---------------------/