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From: egisin@orchid.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: hard disk problem
Message-ID: <7387@orchid.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-May-87 10:30:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  7 10:30:35 1987
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References: <1569@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> <1171@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: Bad sectors

In article <1171@botter.cs.vu.nl>, ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
> >Does MINIX have a facility to map bad sectors and to mark them unusable?  
> Unfortunately, no.  It assumes the disk is perfect.

It is possible to write a utility that allocates bad blocks to
a regular file.  Call the file something like ..badblocks
so that it doesn't accidently get read.