adding bad blocks using 386/ix
Conor P. Cahill
cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Wed Mar 7 00:12:32 AEST 1990
In article <39560 at ism780c.isc.com> darryl at ism780c.UUCP (Darryl Richman) writes:
>This is a better approach than automatically remapping because that
>prevents the user from attempting to reread the bad sector and possibly
>retrieving the data.
PLEASE do not add automatic remapping of bad blocks to 386/ix. Once upon a
time I happened to be using Bell Technologies System V Rel 3.2 (which had
automatic re-mapping) and a static charge caused the disk controller to
report a bad read for any blocks that were currently in process of
being read/written. This wrecked havoc on the file system when portions
of the root, etc, and usr directories were automatically remapped.
Even portions of several executables were hit.
This is a real pain in the a**. The capability to add entries to the
bad block table while running is a good capability, but PLEASE DO NOT
MAKE IT AN AUTOMATIC PART OF THE DISK DRIVER.
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