On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Eric Delcamp wrote:

> I have a disk with some bad blocks on it, but it's a hardware failure (not
> something that could be repaired by a format).

Why do you think the bad block isn't repairable? You can download a
superlative little standalone utility from IBM's web site that'll
repair bad blocks on their IDE drives without even erasing the whole
drive. It's worth a shot.

> gedeon# newfs wd1
> wd1: (uncorrectable data error)
> wd1a: error reading fsbn 60018832 of 60018832-60018839 (wd1 bn 60034897; cn
> 5955
> 8 tn 6 sn 55)wd1: (uncorrectable data error)

> disk: IBM-DTLA-307030

Frederick