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Date:      Mon, 25 Aug 2003 10:41:51 +0200
From:      Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: recover superblock
Message-ID:  <m365kmw2ls.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030825065056.GU10898@funkthat.com> (John-Mark Gurney's message of "Sun, 24 Aug 2003 23:50:56 -0700")
References:  <20030824192611.GA14668@brain.hadiko.de> <20030824232636.GC14668@brain.hadiko.de> <20030825161221.U3593@gamplex.bde.org> <20030825065056.GU10898@funkthat.com>

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John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> writes:

> I've also had the problem of when you do use an alternate superblock
> via -b, it doesn't over drive the primary.  If you have a disk with
> bad blocks on the primary, you have to manualy rewrite it with dd.

...provided the drive automatically reassigns bad blocks on write
(ARWE). I've seen a drive shipping with ARRE set but ARWE unset - it
would reassign on read rather than write. Whatever the manufacturer had
in mind configuring the drive before shipping it...

-- 
Matthias Andree



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