From: djg1@ukc.ac.uk (D.J.Gardner) Subject: Re: Bad blocks (?) on hard disk Date: 29 Jan 1993 23:09:42 GMT
In article <1993Jan28.045718.22220@unislc.uucp> erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
[mkfs -c discussion]
>
>It used not to work, but Linus tells me that this was fixed around 0.98.5
>or so.
>
>I hope he's right... ;)
Sad though it makes me to say it, I think he's not :-(
I've got a couple of bad blocks appeared in my /usr (efs) partition, and
efsck -c happily chugs away, gives screenfulls of kernel error messages when it
finds them, and then dosn't mark them as bad. this is version 0.99pl??
(somewhere between 2 and 4 last time I tried it). I really don't look forwards
to dumping the whole lot to floppy - there must be 30megs in that partition!
The drive is a seagate st277r, 60Meg RLL, controler is western digital, 2:1
interleave, don't know modelnumber.
It's possible I've got an old efsck.. will a new version help?
David