From: bhenning@wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Henning) Subject: Re: HD Bad Sectors Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 18:56:38 GMT
In article <C2I2G5.M8H@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) writes:
>For poor-folk like us with MFM/RLL/ESDI drives, this is DEFINATELY an issue.
>The trick is to first produce a list of bad blocks in a form suitable
>for "mkfs -l". "mkfs -c" won't do it for us. I am going to try and
>write a utility to automate this. Maybe...
Maybe the file system could be patched to automatically map out blocks
that return an error when written to, as well as blocks that return error
codes when read (ideally after allocating a new good block, and retrying
the read a few times in an attempt to recover the data)
Bill