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Also sprach Steven M. Bellovin (smb@cs.columbia.edu)
> I have a disk with enough unreadable portions that it's being replaced=20
> under warranty by the vendor.  I would like to overwrite whatever=20
> portions of the disk I can.  Trying to do that in a straight-forward=20
> fashion runs afoul of the error recovery code; it slows down the=20
> attempt or even prevents it.  Any suggestions on what to do?  (This is=20
> an SATA disk on -current/i386.)

If you know which sectors are FUBARed you could build slices around
them and wipe that working slices with a wiper or dd.

Some HDs also come with a vendormade software that disables defunc
blocks, maybe this would be a way.=20



Stefan
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PGP FPR: CF74 D5F2 4871 3E5C FFFE 0130 11F4 C41E B3FB AE33
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Wer mit Ungeheuern k=E4mpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer =
wird.
Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich
hinein.
Friedrich Nietzsche, "Jenseits von Gut und B=F6se"

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