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Re: Relocating bad sectors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Uwe Schmeling)
Fri Oct 9 11:21:41 1998
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 16:12:04 +0200 (CEST)
From: Uwe Schmeling <uschmeli@csa.de>
To: karchan@eddy.il.fontys.nl
cc: Linux Scsi Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981009113741.16141C-100000@eddy.il.fontys.nl>
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 karchan@eddy.il.fontys.nl wrote:
> Howdie,
>
> I get an IO-Error and a MEDIUM Error on two scsi-2 harddisks. These
> harddisks aren't essential and I don't put sensitive information on it, so
> I wish to relocate these thingies. There's supposed to be this active bad
> sector list on every scsi disk.
>
> How to do that under Linux? Is there a command to rescan the disk? Do/Will
> I lose data when relocating bad sectors?
>
> Perhaps a low-level format will help, but how do I do that? And is it
> dangerous?
>
There is a scsi-format packet called sformat-3.4. I don't no the original
source site, but you can fetch it from our ftp server:
ftp.csa.de/pub/Linux/newstuff/sformat-3.4.tar.gz
I used it to reformat some NOMAI cartridges succesfully.
Uwe
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