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32.\"     @(#)bad144.8	6.7 (Berkeley) 3/16/91
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34.Dd March 16, 1991
35.Dt BAD144 8
36.Os BSD 4
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm bad144
39.Nd read/write dec standard 144 bad sector information
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Nm bad144
42.Op Fl c
43.Op Fl f
44.Op Fl v
45.Ar disk
46.Oo
47.Ar sno
48.Op Ar bad ...
49.Oc
50.Nm bad144
51.Fl a
52.Op Fl c
53.Op Fl f
54.Op Fl v
55.Ar disk
56.Op Ar bad ...
57.Sh DESCRIPTION
58.Nm Bad144
59can be used to inspect the information stored on a disk that is used by
60the disk drivers to implement bad sector forwarding.
61.Pp
62Available options:
63.Pp
64.Bl -tag -width Ds
65.It Fl a
66The argument list consists of new bad sectors to be added to an existing
67list.
68The new sectors are sorted into the list,
69which must have been in order.
70Replacement sectors are moved to accommodate the additions;
71the new replacement sectors are cleared.
72.It Fl c
73Forces an attempt to copy the old sector to the replacement,
74and may be useful when replacing an unreliable sector.
75.It Fl f
76For a RP06, RM03, RM05, Fujitsu Eagle,
77or
78.Tn SMD
79disk on a Massbus, the
80.Fl f
81option may be used to mark the new bad sectors as ``bad''
82by reformatting them as unusable sectors.
83This option is
84.Em required unless
85the sectors have already been marked bad,
86or the system will not be notified that it should use the replacement sector.
87This option may be used while running multiuser; it is no longer necessary
88to perform format operations while running single-user.
89.It Fl v
90The entire process is described as it happens in gory detail if
91.Fl v
92(verbose) is given.
93.El
94.Pp
95The format of
96the information is specified by
97.Tn DEC
98standard 144, as follows.
99The bad sector information is located in the first 5 even numbered sectors
100of the last track of the disk pack.  There are five identical copies of
101the information, described by the
102.Ar dkbad
103structure.
104.Pp
105Replacement sectors are allocated starting with the first sector before
106the bad sector information and working backwards towards the beginning
107of the disk.  A maximum of 126 bad sectors are supported.  The position
108of the bad sector in the bad sector table determines the replacement
109sector to which it corresponds.
110The bad sectors must be listed in ascending order.
111.Pp
112The bad sector information and replacement sectors are conventionally
113only accessible through the ``c'' file system partition of the disk.  If
114that partition is used for a file system, the user is responsible for
115making sure that it does not overlap the bad sector information or any
116replacement sectors.
117Thus, one track plus 126 sectors must be reserved to allow use
118of all of the possible bad sector replacements.
119.Pp
120The bad sector structure is as follows:
121.Bd -literal
122struct dkbad {
123	long	bt_csn;		 /* cartridge serial number */
124	u_short	bt_mbz;		 /* unused; should be 0 */
125	u_short	bt_flag;	 /* -1 => alignment cartridge */
126	struct bt_bad {
127	      u_short bt_cyl;    /* bad sector cylinder number */
128	      u_short bt_trksec; /* track and sector number */
129	} bt_bad[126];
130};
131.Ed
132.Pp
133Unused slots in the
134.Ar bt_bad
135array are filled with all bits set, a putatively
136illegal value.
137.Pp
138.Nm Bad144
139is invoked by giving a device name (e.g. hk0, hp1, etc.).
140With no optional arguments
141it reads the first sector of the last track
142of the corresponding disk and prints out the bad sector information.
143It issues a warning if the bad sectors are out of order.
144.Nm Bad144
145may also be invoked with a serial number for the pack and a list
146of bad sectors.
147It will write the supplied information into all copies
148of the bad-sector file, replacing any previous information.
149Note, however, that
150.Nm bad144
151does not arrange for the specified sectors to be marked bad in this case.
152This procedure should only be used to restore known bad sector information which
153was destroyed.
154.Pp
155It is no longer necessary to reboot to allow the kernel
156to reread the bad-sector table from the drive.
157.Sh SEE ALSO
158.Xr badsect 8 ,
159.Xr format 8
160.Sh BUGS
161It should be possible to format disks on-line under
162.Tn UNIX .
163.Pp
164It should be possible to mark bad sectors on drives of all type.
165.Pp
166On an 11/750,
167the standard bootstrap drivers used to boot the system do
168not understand bad sectors,
169handle
170.Tn ECC
171errors, or the special
172.Tn SSE
173(skip sector) errors of RM80-type disks.
174This means that none of these errors can occur when reading the file
175.Pa /vmunix
176to boot.  Sectors 0-15 of the disk drive
177must also not have any of these errors.
178.Pp
179The drivers which write a system core image on disk after a crash do not
180handle errors; thus the crash dump area must be free of errors and bad
181sectors.
182.Sh HISTORY
183The
184.Nm
185command appeared in
186.Bx 4.1 .
187