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From: delman@mipg.upenn.edu (Delman Lee)
Subject: HD timeout,controller reset,read error 0x80 during mkfs???
Date: 7 Feb 1993 17:40:50 GMT

I am running 0.99.4 with 2 MFM drives with a Seagate ST-21M controller
card (BIOS disabled). I low-level formated the 2 drives with the
utility in the AMI setup menu with a bad-track list.

Partitioned the drives with fdisk. When I do a "mkfs -c /dev/hda? xxxx"
on the partition I get a bunch of errors:

HD timeout
HD-controller reset
HD: read_intr: status = 0x59
HD: read_intr: error = 0x80
.
.
.
Harddisk I/O error
dev ????, sector ?????

I get a LOT of them reporting at same sector ?????, which
makes mkfs takes a LONG time to complete.

Question:
(1) is this normal behaviour?
(2) Had a quick look in /usr/include/linux/hdreg.h. HDError 0x80 means
    Block marked bad. Should that block be accessed? Shouldn't it be
    skipped over?

Thanks --- Delman.

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