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Originally Posted by pseudonym
what about using badsect to mark the secotor bad?
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Sorry, I've not tried it. FWIW, when I did this last, FreeBSD was on 5.2 or a 6 beta -- namely, back in the old days. Back then there were no good tools to locate and mark bad sectors. That may well have changed, since this is one thing that comes up if you use a computer disk. I also recall that there were differences between SCSI and IDE drives, though the forced remapping I suggested should work for either.
If you do use that, you start from ground zero with a decent drive (all other things willing).