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From: jacob.ritorto@gmail.com (Jacob Ritorto)
Subject: [TUHS] mkfs somewhere else?
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 02:03:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYQbfDx=8PfQ3noy=Rnjyhsrs=y=7Tzuv4eSrgTvgdNR+ZGLA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1502081733480.3148@aneurin.horsfall.org>

what about using another minor device?  Is xp0d mapped elsewhere?

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Bliss is a MacBook with a FreeBSD server."
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> there)
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-08  7:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-08  6:22 Jacob Ritorto
2015-02-08  6:36 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-02-08  7:03   ` Jacob Ritorto [this message]
2015-02-08  7:15     ` Jacob Ritorto
2015-02-08 17:34       ` Dave Horsfall
2015-02-08 18:52         ` Jacob Ritorto
2015-02-08 20:10 Norman Wilson
2015-02-12 15:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-02-12 15:50   ` cowan
2015-02-12 19:18     ` random832
2015-02-08 20:12 Norman Wilson
2015-02-08 20:20 Norman Wilson

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