Subject: Re: format(8) ? Where is it?
To: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@kpnQwest.no>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/24/2000 12:10:30 
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:10:58AM +0200, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:

> Maybe scsictl(8) should do this?  It should be able to (attempt to)
> read the block in question, reassign, and then write back the read
> data to the (reassigned) block afterwards if the read was successful?

No, it can't. It doesn't know which blocks are reassigned together with
the one you specified... only the disk knows. (Lots of disks only reassign
groups of blocks, not single ones.!)

	-is