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? -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!