Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 31 Oct 1996 22:44:52 +0000 (GMT) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: SCSI Sector Size Problem |
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On 31 Oct 1996, Matthew X Economou wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > >>>>> "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. >
hmm, man badblocks ....
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