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Date:      31 Jan 2003 19:43:11 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How to map bad sectors on IDE?
Message-ID:  <44lm10g7a8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030201005939.G51460-100000@voo.doo.net>
References:  <20030201005939.G51460-100000@voo.doo.net>

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Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org> writes:

> I have searched Google to find a solution to mark off these two
> blocks/inodes (or however I should call them), so that they will not
> be used anymore. All I found is that this is not possible on
> IDE. Advise: Throw away the disk. Now this I find a bit radical :-)
> Esp. since the disk is about 3 years old.

Why is it radical?  After all, IDE disks already do bad-block
remapping internally, so you've built up a *lot* of bad sectors
already if they're starting to become visible to the operating
system...

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