Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:41:36 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Roman Kurakin <rik@inse.ru> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org, Nik Clayton <nik@ngo.org.uk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Avoiding bad sectors? Message-ID: <200608211442.04551.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <44E83900.4020108@inse.ru> References: <44E77EF7.6070004@ngo.org.uk> <200608201922.26864.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <44E83900.4020108@inse.ru>
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--nextPart6570041.IzQmpX71Z9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 20 August 2006 19:57, Roman Kurakin wrote: > >Heh, well not necessarily although I personally would be shopping.. > > > >If the disk gets a dud sector and can't read it it won't remap it until > > you write to it. (I've seen this happen and someone else posted about it > > too) =20 > 1) So why not just dd seek=3Dxx count=3D1 to it to perform a write? > 2) Before some one would read it, some one should write to it... > Have I missed smth? 1) It's just swap, it's less thinking to nuke the whole partition 2) The command dd's from /dev/zero to the disk. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart6570041.IzQmpX71Z9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBE6UCk5ZPcIHs/zowRApM3AJ4hO82/OzuoPGkNfrF4UEWzR6F45gCfZy9+ pf0Vue45SlKbDUJPgcaZI4Q= =h7Cg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart6570041.IzQmpX71Z9--
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