John-Mark Gurney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've also had the problem of when you do use an alternate superblock > via -b, it doesn't over drive the primary. If you have a disk with > bad blocks on the primary, you have to manualy rewrite it with dd.
...provided the drive automatically reassigns bad blocks on write (ARWE). I've seen a drive shipping with ARRE set but ARWE unset - it would reassign on read rather than write. Whatever the manufacturer had in mind configuring the drive before shipping it... -- Matthias Andree _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
