On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 09:46:48AM -0600, W. Suika Roberts wrote:
> Is there a way to mark blocks as bad under NetBSD?
> 
> There is the scsictl sdx reassign bn command, but it only works on SCSI disks
> 
> there is badsect, but it appears to only work for FFS, and I'm not sure that
> actually does.
> 
> bad144 appears to be only for ancient removable-pack dec disks.

I think bad144 should work for IDE disks too, the code is here at last.
But modern disks should do automatic block reassign; when it starts reporting
bad blocks then it's time to find another one.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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