Re: EXT2 and BadBlock updating.....

[Khimenko Victor]

In <[e-mail]> Mike Castle ([e-mail]) wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 11:58:55AM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>> You mentioned that there is no way to actively update the badblocks list
>> in EXT2.  Can you explain or tell me how I can kludge around this?
>> Also will EXT3 have this as a native feature?

> I thought IDE didn't nead this feature; that they automatically remapped
> bad blocks.

Some will do. Some will not. WD ones can do this with special utility.
DOS-based, of course. That is: NON-transparently. New IBM ones will do this
by itself (transparently). Some not-so-new can not do it at all (I've seen all
three types of IDE disks myself).

> {Granted, doesn't help in the SCSI case, but none-the-less...}

I think SCSI looks like IDE here: some drives will do this, some will not.