-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-03-02 at 16:13 +0200, Teemu Nikkilä wrote:
I have an old iRiver IHP-120 hard disk ogg vorbis and mp3 player whose disk has got partly damaged. It still works and I'd like to format the disk so that the range of blocks where the damage is will be marked bad.
I've already tried to format with -c option but it takes way too long. At the moment I'm scanning the disk with badblocks to get an idea where the damage is (the range of blocks that are mostly bad).
It takes very long because it retries many times (10, I think). I don't know if you can limit that number. It might be faster if you access the disk locally (ide cable).
How should I format the disk or how do I choose the correct block size and should I first create a file with a long list of block numbers and give this file to mkdosfs with the -l option?
If you have the list, yes, suposedly you can feed the list to the format program. Another method is to format anyway, then use "dosfsck -t". - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF6EfItTMYHG2NR9URAshhAKCAj7jzSeiZgcN8PFrynxEJDz1oVQCeMKJe Xk4yYJsdDrMMjvElJV8uaSo= =z/Kq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----