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Re: Bad blocks on scsi drives.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Juergen Gaertner)
Tue Sep 8 09:15:02 1998
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 13:34:38 +0200
From: Juergen Gaertner <gaertner@mbox.si.uni-hannover.de>
To: Bench <bench@boracay.surfshop.net.ph>
CC: George Farris <george@ve7frg.gmsys.com>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Why you're not using the "badblocks" program?
Bench schrieb:
>
> 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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