Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!ajg@ll-vlsi From: ajg%ll-vlsi@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: 4.1BSD and bad sectoring Message-ID: <2139@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 14:55:19 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2139 Posted: Mon Jun 13 14:55:19 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jun-83 12:29:56 EDT Lines: 34 Hi, We have one VAX 11/780 "ll-vlsi" running 4.1BSD (tape release 7/19/81) (error free disk packs) working just fine. However we have just attempted to bring up a second VAX 11/780 with 4.1BSD (tape release date 7/19/81), and are having problem with bad sectoring. This VAX has: 1 SI 9400 controller(massbus) 2 SI 9775 disk drives (675 MB unformatted) each emulating 2 RM05's 1 TU77 tape drive These disk packs are NOT error free. We used the following procedure bringing up the system: 1) We used the DEC EVRAC diagnostic to enter bad sectors 2) Booted UNIX from tape Now I use the dump utility to test out some areas of the disk, e.g. "/etc/dump 0f /3h/dummy /usr " I get hard error console messages corresponding to sectors that have been entered in the bad sector file!!! Anybody got any ideas what the problem is ?? Note: we have already made the path News-item-number:25 line 112 of hpreg.