Avoiding bad sectors?

[Roman Kurakin]

Hi,

Daniel O'Connor:

>On Sunday 20 August 2006 17:34, Doug Barton wrote:
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>>Daniel O'Connor wrote:
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>>>The disk should remap the sector, if it refuses to write to the sector
>>>because it's out of remappable sectors
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>>You forgot to add, "and then immediately go out and buy a new disk because
>>that one is toast." :)
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>Heh, well not necessarily although I personally would be shopping..
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>If the disk gets a dud sector and can't read it it won't remap it until you 
>write to it. (I've seen this happen and someone else posted about it too)
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1) So why not just dd seek=xx count=1 to it to perform a write?
2) Before some one would read it, some one should write to it...
Have I missed smth?

rik