recover superblock

[Matthias Andree]

John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j at efn.org> writes:

> I've also had the problem of when you do use an alternate superblock
> via -b, it doesn't over drive the primary.  If you have a disk with
> bad blocks on the primary, you have to manualy rewrite it with dd.

...provided the drive automatically reassigns bad blocks on write
(ARWE). I've seen a drive shipping with ARRE set but ARWE unset - it
would reassign on read rather than write. Whatever the manufacturer had
in mind configuring the drive before shipping it...

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Matthias Andree