Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: SCSI Sector Size Problem | From | Matthew X Economou <> | Date | 31 Oct 1996 16:34:01 -0500 |
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>>>>> "SA" == System Administration <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
SA> If not, temporarily partition and format it with DOS. MS-DOS SA> reads the entire disk drive during its high-level format. This SA> will force bad blocks to be reloated.
Why doesn't mke2fs do proper bad-block checking? I've had several floppies that had bad sectors on them that either (a) weren't detected by fdformat or (b) weren't detected by mke2fs. My only option was to format them with (Yggdrasil's) mkdosfs, which actually does the bad-block checking.
Linux's Second Extended file system doesn't seem to be very fault tolerant. Because if there's a bad sector on the disk, the -c option won't catch it, even though everything else (including the kernel) does see it (and then panics, usually).
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