dieter wrote:

> 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
>
Try a MGE (www.mgeups.us) UPS.  They have USBS models with USB and 
Serial. They also opensource their software.

-adam.