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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc SCHAEFER)
Wed Dec 16 03:33:27 1998

To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Date: 	16 Dec 1998 08:57:25 +0100

Gunasingha Rathnayaka <phguna@feynman.phys.subr.edu> wrote:
> I reformatted the disk and tried to do, but it did the same message as above.

You should have *verified* the disk and replaced the bad block. This
option is available in most SCSI BIOSes (Tekram, Adaptec, Qlogic).

People tend to use FORMAT UNIT to *hide* problems, not to solve them.
Worse, some implementations do not preserve the grown-badblock list.

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