atatat@atatdot.net said:
> i didn't see anything related to scsi here: 
> [...]

Yes, I've seen that there was no SCSI implementation; my grumbling
was more about the limited userland interface.
Darren is still working on it as just seen in the commit list,
so he'll turn it into something better...

> i'd like to ask my dying drive which blocks it thinks are
> toast, so that i can set about finding out which files are zorched

In the cases I've experienced, IDE disks did die rather quickly.
The drive failed completely before I had a chance to recover anything.
With alpha/OSF1 and SCSI disks I would have had a chance - one gets
a message when a bad sector is found. Obviously it gets replaced automaticly.
If the drive's pool of spare sectors is exhausted, it gets serious.
If I had read the log messages, I'd been warned before:-)

best regards
Matthias