From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261815AbTJRROs (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2003 13:14:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263927AbTJRROs (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2003 13:14:48 -0400 Received: from relay1.ptmail.sapo.pt ([212.55.154.43]:43969 "HELO relay1") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261815AbTJRROG (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2003 13:14:06 -0400 Message-ID: <3F9169A2.1050506@vgertech.com> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:26:10 +0100 From: Nuno Silva Organization: VGER, LDA User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030908 Debian/1.4-4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pt MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Blockbusting news, this is important (Re: Why are bad disk sectors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?) References: <32a101c3916c$e282e330$5cee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <200310131014.h9DAEwY3000241@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <33a201c39174$2b936660$5cee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <20031014064925.GA12342@bitwizard.nl> <3F8BA037.9000705@sbcglobal.net> <3F8BBC08.6030901@namesys.com> <11bf01c39492$bc5307c0$3eee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <20031017102436.GB10185@bitwizard.nl> <200310171049.h9HAnBbO000594@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <200310171935.h9HJZaLm002335@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <200310180827.h9I8Rxw8000383@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Krzysztof Halasa wrote: [..snip..] > > Doing cat /dev/zero > /dev/hd* fixes all bad sectors on modern drive. Yeah! I'm doing this right now because the data in hda is very important and and don't do backups since August!! :-D Regards, Nuno Silva