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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