>> Is there a way mark the bad blocks on the hard drive while mkfs'ing the
>> drive? Or another tool to mark bad blocks on a live filesystem? Just
>> curious.
>> Thanks!
>> Don
I think badblocks are handled at the drive level anymore.
Both with SCSI and IDE.
If you look at a old drive and a new one, you will see on the old one a list of
bad sectors as it left the factory.
On new drives, they don't show it because the drive internally maps around the
bad sectors.
AFAIK, if a drive starts having end-user observable bad sectors, it is time to
replace it.
Greg Freemyer
Internet Engineer
Deployment and Integration Specialist
Compaq ASE - Tru64 v4, v5
Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect
The Norcross Group
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