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Re: Bad blocks on scsi drives.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bench)
Mon Sep 7 23:48:24 1998

Date: 	Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:21:37 +0800 (CST)
From: Bench <bench@boracay.surfshop.net.ph>
To: George Farris <george@ve7frg.gmsys.com>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199809071622.JAA24036@ve7frg.gmsys.com>


Likewise, I would like to know if 'e2fsck -v -c device' is the solution.
I think this doesn't mark bad blocks.


On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, George Farris wrote:

> At one time I remember there being a scsi bad block program, anyone
> know where I can find it?  I have a disk that is giving a couple of 
> errors in some blocks and I want to lock them out.  Does anyone have 
> a utility that will do this I prefer Linux/dos based ones.
> 
> Somewhere I remember a utility that would allow one to set options on 
> the scsi drive so that it would automatically lock out the bad blocks.
> This would do the job as well.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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