[Info-vax] Need help mounting shadow set

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In article <07a455e4-2b97-47dd-8973-e96a8add3a2d at j28g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>, Tom Adams <tadamsmar at yahoo.com> writes:
>On Oct 7, 8:14=A0am, "R.A.Omond" <Roy.Om... at BlueBubble.UK.Com> wrote:
>> Tom Adams wrote:
>>
>> > [...snip...]
>>
>> > I kept my "bad" disk in the shadow set. =A0It is currently showing no
>> > errors. =A0I think the "bad" disk is only a problem when a bad block
>> > gets located in a trailing block of a file where the sun don't shine.
>> > When that happens, it logs an error when I put it in the shadowset or
>> > when I run ANAL/DISK/SHAD. =A0Or, so I have been told here. =A0I guess =
>its
>> > a bug in the shadowing software that does not handle the trailing
>> > blocks consistently.
>>
>> OK, since you've kept your "bad" disk, you might consider re-formatting
>> it (and, no, that's not a bug in the shadowing software).
>>
>> Check out Hoff's recent addition to the World of Knowledge at:
>>
>> http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1414
>>
>> So, say your "bad" disk is DKB100:
>>
>> 1) Dismount it from your shadowset
>>
>> 2) $ mcr sys$etc:rztools_alpha
>> =A0 =A0 RZTools> dkb100: /format
>>
>> This will do a low-level format of your disk, and add any bad blocks
>> found to the bad block list, giving you a "fresh" disk.
>
>I tried that before I bought the "new" disk.  It was suggested on an
>earlier thread during earlier rounds of my battle with this disk.
>Did not do any good.  Still got bad blocks when I recomposed the
>shadowset.
>
>Do we know that that would even work in theory?  Does shadowing even
>use that bad block list?
>
>>
>> How long it lasts before new bad blocks are found is another question
>> for another time ;-)

Since this is only a 2.1GB shadowset, it would seem to me to be smarter
to get a new set of drives.  4.3GB and large drive are going for a song 
on ebay.

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