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marking bad sectors on a hard disk

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Burger)
Fri Sep 26 06:48:48 1997

From: "Michael Burger" <mburger@compucomis.net>
To: "linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu" <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: 	Fri, 26 Sep 97 00:39:06 -0400
Reply-To: "Michael Burger" <mburger@compucomis.net>

I've been getting a bunch of errors on one of my disks, and it looks
like I've got some physically bad sectors.

The problem is that this isn't a SCSI disk...it's an IDE...anyone
know of a way to flag these sectors as bad, so that the file system
won't keep choking on them?



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