>>>>> "Tracy" == Tracy Nelson <tnelson158@attbi.com> writes:

Tracy> but it may help if you get some low-level diagnostic
Tracy> software from the manufacturer.  

Yep, i'm looking at Seagate's site while this mail is sent...

Tracy> bad-sector-mapping utility, that would allow you to specify a
Tracy> bad sector to be replaced.

In fact, i'm hoping to find some utility to mark this block as bad
 without having to format the whole disk... When i was young, long
 long time ago, i remember a DOS utility that allow such thing, but
 it was for the FAT FS. As NetBSD doesn't seem to allow such a tweak,
 perhaps some low-level manufacturer tool will do the trick.

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