Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote on Sun, 25 Nov 2001
at 16:45:30 +0100 in <20011125164530.B1655@antioche.eu.org>:


> On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 11:58:52PM -0500, John Hawkinson wrote:
> > Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote on Wed, 14 Nov 2001
> > at 21:22:50 +0100 in <20011114212250.A711@antioche.eu.org>:
> > 
> > > Well, bad144 should still work, but you have to enter the block # by
> > > hand I think.
> > 
> > This is insufficient when you hit ffs metadata.
> 
> Don't you think about badsect(8) here ?

Oops, you're right.

> It looks like bad144 does real bad sector forwarding at the disk
> driver level, so it shouldn't matter if it's a block of data or
> metadata.

Yes, but I am under the impression that bad144 does not work on
disks that don't support that (like SCSI and IDE). No?

--jhawk