Question on rm driver with bad sector forwarding.

Keith Bostic keith at seismo.CSS.GOV
Fri Feb 14 05:56:01 AEST 1986


In article <513 at botter.UUCP>, sater at botter.UUCP (Hans van Staveren) writes:
> I am in the process of installing BSD 2.9 on some 11's and in the
> distribution I have, I found a file called rm.badsect.c
> containing a frightening comment about not being tested.
> 
> It is SCCS id 2.1 dated 8/23/83.
> 
> Does anybody know if it works, and if it doesn't is there
> someone out there who has a copy that *does* work?

While mostly correct, there are some problems with the bad sectoring in the
device drivers originally distributed for 2.9BSD If you wish to use these
drivers, I suggest that you not use the bad sectoring.

An RM driver with correct bad sectoring can be obtained from either The Center
for Seismic Studies or Harvard University.  To give credit where it's due, the
bad sectoring fixes were done by Stephen Uitti at Purdue University.

Keith Bostic
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