From: unixsys@ssg.com (Rick Emerson) Subject: Bad block grief Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1992 06:21:19 GMT
I seem to have a bad spot on /dev/hda and doing mkfs -c doesn't cause the
filesystem to ignore it. Attempts to access this are give a series of
HD-Controller resets along with an incrementing sector count.
Is there any way to convince Linux this is really a black hole? I
reformatted the drive and the low-level formatter reported out one spot
which is marked in the drive's tables. Does Linix ignore this?
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