Subject: Re: Seeking the truth about bad sectors
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/25/2001 16:45:30
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 11:58:52PM -0500, John Hawkinson wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote on Wed, 14 Nov 2001
> at 21:22:50 +0100 in <20011114212250.A711@antioche.eu.org>:
> 
> > Well, bad144 should still work, but you have to enter the block # by
> > hand I think.
> 
> This is insufficient when you hit ffs metadata.

Don't you think about badsect(8) here ?
It looks like bad144 does real bad sector forwarding at the disk driver level,
so it shouldn't matter if it's a block of data or metadata.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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