On 02/20/2017 03:45 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > But there's a request on the linux wiki program for someone to write a > utility program that takes a ddrescue log and flags the duff sectors as > "soft unreadable". That would mean that if you can recover 35 drives, > provided no stripe has lost two sectors across two drives, you wouldn't > lose any data. > > If you want to try and write that utility? Or if you want to email me a > ddrescue log with a bunch of failed sectors, I'll have a go at writing > it myself :-) Check out hdparm --make-bad-sector. You can get what you are describing by scripting that. It's marked very dangerous, but I guess if one has nothing to lose.... Phil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html