problem with SSP 7.5 in *M36 on a model 170 ...

[Mark S Waterbury <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, All:

Someone I know is on-site this week-end trying to help a customer whose 
Advanced 36 *M36 running SSP 7.5 on a 170 is having a problem --  
apparently a bad sector or block on the (virtualized) disk -- causing 
the nightly back-up to HALT with an error when it gets to the step where 
it wants to back up one particular library, which apparently contains a 
bad block or  sector ...

I seem to recall there was  a service aid or tool or procedure to mark a 
block or  sector  as "bad" to allow the system  to be able to skip over 
the bad sector, so the back-up can  then run  to completion...

But,  my expertise is very limited on SSP.

Can  you recall how you might approach resolving such a problem?

From looking at  some S/36 manuals, it appears that the BUILD procedure 
or  the PATCH procedure might help?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions ...

Mark