Message from discussion Bad blocks

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From: voya...@eng.umd.edu (Gebran Krikor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Bad blocks
Summary: Bad blocks
Keywords: blocks
Message-ID: <1991Aug25.150414.6501@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 25 Aug 91 15:04:14 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park
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I am trying to install Minix on a 286 with a hard drive that has a
large number of bad sectors on it. When I ran the Minix readall, as
suggested in the manual, it only found one of the sectors. This is
rather disturbing, as when I finished the installation, cpp worked
fine for the first 10 test programs, and then was reported to not be
an executable file. So, is there a program which will do a complete
test of my hard drive and mark sectors bad, or do I need to write
my own?

Gebran

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