On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:58:03 +0200, Manuel Bouyer
<bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 11:53:25AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > > I don't know as I don't have such drives here to test. But you could test
> > > by yourself.
> > > But if using LBA48 cause a 65% performance drop for these drives, they're
> > > even more buggy than I though :) Note that LBA48 is required for any sector
> > > above 128G.
> > > 
> > The badsect will grab the sector, but is the problem exactly that
> > sector or all sectors past that point?
> 
> Exactly this sector.
> 

Then badsect(8) should do exactly what's desired.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb