September 2000
Beginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
addbadsec [-p][-a blkno [blkno...]][-f filename] raw-device
Use addbadsec to map out bad disk blocks on IA systems. Normally, these blocks are identified during surface analysis. Occasionally, the disk subsystem reports unrecoverable data errors indicating a bad block. You can feed a block number reported in this way directly into addbadsec, and the block is remapped. addbadsec first tries hardware remapping. This feature is supported on SCSI drives and takes place at the disk hardware level. If the target is an IDE drive, then software remapping is used. For software remapping to succeed, the partition must contain an alternate slice and there must be room in this slice to perform ...