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Re: Surface Scan for Linux?
On Sun, 3 Mar 1996 15:12:20 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I need some program that can do a surface scan on one of the disk partitions, which repeatedly trashes files with "I/O Error" messages. I'm looking for some program similar to scandisk or NDD.
>
>Any suggestions?
When I had the same problem with a CDROM, I made a surface scan using
'dd'. Ofcourse, dd won't fix your disk, but at least it will inform
you if you really have a bad sector. Does ext2 supports bad sector
mapping?
>TIA,
>
>Gilad Gam.
Udi