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Re: [opensuse] Bad Sector remapping?
  • From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:38:05 +0200 (CEST)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709280034440.25099@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Sep 27 2007 18:32, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>
>So I would like to cause the drive to map the sector to one of its
>spares,

The drive does that itself. Spare sectors are never exposed to
the world outside the harddisk's inner electronics.

>I'm stuck on the first step.  I thought writing data to the sector
>would cause the drive to remap it, but that is not happening.

Then perhaps you have run out of spare sectors.

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