Re: bad sectors on ibm drive --- can't boot

["Frank Winans" <fwinans airmail net>]

I don't think mke2fs will check for bad blocks by default, 
and even the  -c   option just does a quick and dirty readonly
test for 'em.
> > I've got bad sectors on a IBM 36GB U2W drive and with Redhat 6.1 installed
> > and its preventing the system from booting.
> >
> > The error is something like: MEDIUM ERROR
> > Can't read from sector ''
<snip>
> Its a tough situation that you are in, but what I would suggest that you
> do is to boot from a floppy or a cdrom, and then mount that partition and
> then backup all the data in it.
> 
> Then you can run a format command and it will mark the bad blocks
> following which you can reinstall.
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Grendel