Subject: Re: Seeking the truth about bad sectors
To: Johan Danielsson <joda@pdc.kth.se>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/14/2001 21:22:50
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:09:30PM +0100, Johan Danielsson wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> writes:
> 
> > The idea is that when a disk has developed enouth bad blocks to fill
> > the remapping table, then it's time to remplace it.
> 
> But in practice this often occur after only a short while, especially
> with crappy drives (which most of them seem to be). It would be nice
> to have some tool to do software remapping for you.

Well, bad144 should still work, but you have to enter the block # by
hand I think.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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