Well, minix has a tool that gathers the bad sectors into files, sort of what
badsect seems to do.

I really can't replace the drive until I get the data off.  I'll accept the
files that got hit, but I've got to get the data off!  

Thanks -Mike

On 27 Jun 2001, Johan Danielsson wrote:

> Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com> writes:
> 
> > Is there some sort of "scandisk" program to automatically do a
> > surface scan and try to move the data to another sector (or just
> > mark that sector bad)?
> 
> IBM has some kind of dos-based disktool, but it sucks.
> 
> > This is, incidentally, an IBM 29G disk about 4 months old.  A little
> > scary to be developing bad sectors.
> 
> What kind, 75 or 60GXP? Replace it.
> 
> /Johan