[4676] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Bad blocks on scsi drives.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bench)
Wed Sep 9 04:34:19 1998
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 10:08:49 +0800 (CST)
From: Bench <bench@boracay.surfshop.net.ph>
To: Juergen Gaertner <gaertner@mbox.si.uni-hannover.de>
cc: George Farris <george@ve7frg.gmsys.com>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <35F5164E.CFA54DD@mbox.si.uni-hannover.de>
The -c option in e2fsck calls badblocks.
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Juergen Gaertner wrote:
> 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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