relocation info

[marius at alchemy.franken.de]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 12:54:52AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> I have a SCSI disk which is showing signs of surface errors.  I've
> tried to dd /dev/zero over it several times, but I never get write
> errors - only unrecoverable read errors.  Both AWRE and ARRE are
> enabled, but I never get errors when I write to the disk, so nothing
> gets relocated.  Is there any way I can force relocation of the
> sectors which exhibit read errors?
> 

you could try the repair-function (`sformat -repair`) of
sysutils/sformat.