From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 7 10:21:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22398 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 May 1998 10:21:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rmsq.com (rmsq.com [204.133.95.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22374 for ; Thu, 7 May 1998 10:21:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from baldrick@rmsq.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rmsq.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA27072 for ; Thu, 7 May 1998 11:13:21 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 11:13:21 -0600 (MDT) From: Clod Baldrick X-Sender: baldrick@corsair To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Masking out bad blocks Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG fsck tells us we have bad blocks on a file system, but apparently makes no attempt to mask out these blocks. Does anyone know how we can do this? It used to be the case that doing a low-level format would give us a table of bad blocks for mkfs to ignore, but scsiformat doesn't seem to do this -- and it completes in around a second. Regards. -- Clod Baldrick RMS, Longmont CO To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message