Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: [SpinRite] > Takes for ever though but is easy to use and may recover partial > sectors automatically too ;-)
I really wonder how it's going to do that. > mhdd comes with sysresccd and can make a drive ignore bad sectors > independent from the filesystem. Be careful to get the right sectors > though as it will destroy the data in them. Well, yes, to get rid of a persistent read error, overwrite the sector to force a remap or whatever internal action the drive takes. You can do that with plain dd(1). -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
