Hi, Daniel O'Connor: >On Sunday 20 August 2006 17:34, Doug Barton wrote: > > >>Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> >> >>>The disk should remap the sector, if it refuses to write to the sector >>>because it's out of remappable sectors >>> >>> >>You forgot to add, "and then immediately go out and buy a new disk because >>that one is toast." :) >> >> > >Heh, well not necessarily although I personally would be shopping.. > >If the disk gets a dud sector and can't read it it won't remap it until you >write to it. (I've seen this happen and someone else posted about it too) > > 1) So why not just dd seek=xx count=1 to it to perform a write? 2) Before some one would read it, some one should write to it... Have I missed smth? rikReceived on Sun Aug 20 2006 - 08:20:06 UTC
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