Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:27:12 +0400 From: Roman Kurakin <rik@inse.ru> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> 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: <44E83900.4020108@inse.ru> In-Reply-To: <200608201922.26864.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <44E77EF7.6070004@ngo.org.uk> <200608201227.34510.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <44E817A6.30405@FreeBSD.org> <200608201922.26864.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Hi, Daniel O'Connor: >On Sunday 20 August 2006 17:34, Doug Barton wrote: > > >>Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> >> >>>The disk should remap the sector, if it refuses to write to the sector >>>because it's out of remappable sectors >>> >>> >>You forgot to add, "and then immediately go out and buy a new disk because >>that one is toast." :) >> >> > >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) > > 1) So why not just dd seek=xx count=1 to it to perform a write? 2) Before some one would read it, some one should write to it... Have I missed smth? rik
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