[rescue] Repairing bad blocks

[George Adkins]

> Over the weekend, I started getting tons of bad-block error messages on the
> drive in my LX.  It's the same small set of numbers over and over, like
> "Block: 795437". The messages are displayed on the console, but don't seem
> to be in the logs.  Good thing, too, or the several-a-second pace of their
> production would fill my little disk pretty quickly.
>
> Can I use format to fix these blocks, lock 'em out, or something?  If so,
> are the block numbers in the error messages the same numbers format will
> want, or is there some conversion involved?
>

*bsd's offer scsictl allowing you to spare bad blocks at will...  I'm not 
sure whether solaris will allow you to actually directly touch the disk at 
low level or not...

George