Re: Why are bad disk sectors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Wes Janzen wrote:

>
>>
>>
>> You have to do the math on the LBA sector numbers (subtract the
>> partition start, divide by two).
>> Also, you can use the "badblocks" program.  
>>
> I think he's using reiserfs on the partition, which ASFAIK doesn't 
> support marking bad sectors without some work.  I tend to agree with 
> namesys when they suggest just getting a new drive if it has used up 
> all of its extra sectors.  In my experience (admittedly limited), any 
> drive which runs out of extra sectors starts to go bad in a hurry.
>
> -Wes-
>
>>             Roger.  
>>
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I think the problem is that many users don't know how to trigger the bad 
sector remapping for the case where the drive can still remap, using 
writes to the bad blocks, and probably our faq needs updating.

nikita, can you do that?

-- 
Hans