8 Feb
2015
8 Feb
'15
12:36 p.m.
On Sun, 8 Feb 2015, Jacob Ritorto wrote:
However, when I try to mkfs, I can see the heads
trying to write on the
headcrashed part of the disk. (Nice having those plexiglass covers!)
Is there a way to tell mkfs (or perhaps some other program) to not try
to write on the damaged cylinders?
Modify the driver itself?
I also wrote a paper on a "bad block" system, where something like inum
"-1" contained the list of bad sectors, but never saw it through.
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