sparing bad blocks

[John L. Grzesiak]

> 
> Next, a question for the interactive types.  Why does the -V or -v 
> option with an Adaptec 1542 SCSI controller not work?   I can hear
> the drive retry several times on each bad sector but the program 
> never reports one.  When a bad sector is encountered in operation,
> I hear only one retry before the kernal reports a problem.  I
> had to collect bad sector information by dd'ing from /dev/dsk/0s1 etc
> and logging the kernal messages.  What a bitch!
> 

I may be wrong here , but I beleive the HA-154x remaps sectors to
 spares transparently. So , if this is the case , the OS won't
 get to see bad sectors.



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