> Subject: bad144 on IDE disks
>
> I'm using 1.5 on my laptop, and recently I discovered that I have some
> bad sectors, but when I tried to use bad144 remap these sectors, it
> seemed to have no effect; it still gives me errors when I fsck the
> filesystem.  Does bad144 actually _work_?  Am I missing something?  I'd
> use badsect, except that the errors cover filesystem metadata.
not with IDE disks.

IDE drives has sector remapping automatic in hardware.
if you get read errors your drive is seriously broken or at least drive
does not remapped it yet.

try backing up data, doing
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d one or more times.

most IDE drives remap sectors on faulty writes