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From: Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen@ose.nl>
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On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 12:32:14 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Bas Smeelen wrote:
> 
> > On 01/06/2012 04:37 PM, Warren Block wrote:
> >> On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Bas Smeelen wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On 01/06/2012 03:39 PM, Warren Block wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Bas Smeelen wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> I have had this with a drive and multiple read errors would not
> >>>>> remap the
> >>>>> sector.
> >>>>> With write errors the sector would be remapped. This was a new
> >>>>> Samsung laptop drive though, not a Western Digital.
> >
> > I could use dd if=/dev/random of=file seek=blocks_to_skip bs=100M
> > the next time
> 
> Yes, if you're not worried about existing data.  But use /dev/zero 
> (faster and you can verify the value) and bs=1M count=100 (ties up
> only 1M of buffer space).

Thanks a lot. This was always confusing me, now I know!
Cheers



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