Subject: Re: Reassigning defective blocks on direct SCSI devices
To: None <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Andreas Kotes <count@flatline.de>
List: port-pmax
Date: 08/30/1999 14:55:38
Hi!

On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:

> >  - is there a program that scans for bad blocks an remaps them?
> Yes, sformat. 
> ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/sformat/sformat-3.4.tar.gz
> Currently it does not run on NetBSD, but if you have a
> SunOS/Solaris/Linux box you can get your disk back to live. 

not possible :( the disc is sitting rock-solid in a machine I don't have
any physical access to any longer. I'm allowed to run and use it by
goodwill ... and I built in a partly defective 2GB drive the last time I
opened it.

   Count

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