adding bad blocks using 386/ix
Larry Snyder
larry at nstar.UUCP
Wed Feb 28 22:53:21 AEST 1990
I recently installed a 1542 as a secondary controller along with
a 2372. I'm booting off the 2372, mounting /usr off the 1542,
and then mounting /usr2 of the 1542.
I've been getting numerous errors on the SCSI drive. When installing
the drive, I did a low level format using the 1542 BIOS and ran the
complete DMA check for 2 hours (which didn't produce a single error).
I tried adding the errors for the SCSI drive using mkpart -A <abs sector>
and I get an error - No root partition. I also tried "mkpart -A <sec> -f
/etc/partitions" - likewise the same error, no the bad blocks were not added
to /etc/partitions.
Finally, I added the bad blocks manually to /etc/partitions, unmounted and
remounted the device (I assume that /etc/partitions is read at mount time).
The errors that I am still getting are "illegal or erroneous command, absolute
sector 1364708".
My DMA was running at SYCLK and I changed it to SYSCLK/2 (I have the AMI
bios). The 1542 is jumpered in the default configuration with the exception
of the floppies disabled.
Any ideas out there?
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Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA
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