[CentOS] Re: SCSI bad block table display
Scott Silva
ssilva at sgvwater.com
Wed Dec 5 23:09:22 UTC 2007
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?
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