Subject: Re: Media Error - How to mark block bad.
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/26/1998 07:43:40
In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.980323225611.26923A-100000@bedrock.bitcon.no> harald@bitcon.no (Harald Bjoroy) writes:
>Hi.
>
>I'm getting "Media error, blk 325950" (it seems consistent, always the 
>same block). 
>
>Is there a way to mark this block as bad? Is there a tool for doing this?
>
>This is on a Seagate disk, used for /usr/local/ and as such not critical 
>for the system. (ST 1239 NS to be exact, app. 200 MB in size).


get sdd from ftp.astron.com:/pub/netbsd; I've cleaned it up a bit and
ported it to /current.

christos