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Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Avoiding bad sectors?
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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