On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Brian wrote:

> I tried the dd copy (the point being to force write to the blocks, to see if 
> the IDE drive hardware would remap the bad stuff using reserved areas, yes?) 
> and the copy reportedly completed successfully, but the areas remain bad 
> during fsck. (I did overwrite the magic number for the parition but that's 
> fixable.  I guess "disk sector 756" equals "block 736" i.e. the first one of 
> the /tmp partition).

I have seen at least one disk that even when rewriting the bad sectors 
didn't remap them, unless I also disabled the write cache (see dkctl(8)). 
It's also possible your disk ran out of spare sectors to remap to(*), in 
which case I'd buy a new disk. Maybe you need to do that anyway...

(*) If you have smart support, you can check that with atactl.

>
> Brian
>

Kind regards,
Dieter

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