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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [Q] fsck and 'medium error' problems
Date: 20 Dec 1994 18:14:14 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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References: <YOCUM.94Dec19155436@sparticus.gateway.cybernet.com> <3d5jbv$cun@agate.berkeley.edu> <3d68sn$dhv@linda.teleport.com>
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In article <3d68sn$dhv@linda.teleport.com>, bmk <bmk@teleport.com> wrote:
>I'm getting something similar on one of my scsi disks.  I'd rather not
>swap out the disk if I can fix it.   Is there any sort of utility to
>mark defective blocks without reformatting the disk?

For SCSI drives?  I don't think so.  I would bag the drive.  You don't
need the grief.

					Jordan