[rescue] netbsd error

[George Adkins]

> > entire cylinder to be spared, yadda, yadda, yadda...
>
> I have no idea what what you just said means.  Time for some googling I
> guess.
>
There are commands to manipulate the drive at the sector level, check the 
manpage for scsictl(8).

>
> I seem to be getting a lot of these errors, although they all have the info
> field and command info entrys.
>
the drive is going downhill.  if the surface coating is breaking down, it's 
spewing particulates out onto other tracks, it's only going to get worse, 
possibly exponentially

> No data of importance is going to be stored on this box since it's job is
> also to be a NAT.  However, my options are to make do with this drive, use
> a 200meg drive, or wait at least a month till I can buy a new drive.  
<snip>  If only I had more spare
> drives.

How big of a drive do you need?  I have a few 500meg/1 gig drives floating 
around I could be convinced to part with cheap (like about the same cost as a 
3/160).  Wide or narrow?

George