[CentOS] Re: SCSI bad block table display

on 12/5/2007 12:13 PM Hugh E Cruickshank spake the following:

Hi All:

Is there a utility available that will allow for the dump/display of the bad track table of a SCSI drive. We had this capability on SCO OSR5 but I have not been able to locate anything similar for Linux. The closest I have found is the badblocks utility that is part of the e2fsprogs package but this appears to only test for bad blocks not display the current bad block table contents.

I have done quite a bit of searching with Google but either it does not exist or (more than likely) I am using the wrong search parameters.

TIA

Regards, Hugh

Don't most modern drives cover up the bad blocks with controller logic and spare block substitutions?