> >does not remapped it yet.
>
> Right; I'm hoping to limp along until a new drive comes in.
>
> >try backing up data, doing
> >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d one or more times.
> >
> >most IDE drives remap sectors on faulty writes
>
> Uh, well ... that would completely zero out the only disk in the machine,
> wouldn't it?

yes so i've said "back up data"


maybe (MAYBE) dd if=/dev/rwd0d of=/dev/rwd0d bs=64k conv=noerror
will do it without wiping but never tried.

anyway IDE drives does reallocation on write errors