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  A simple matter  
From: Invisible
Date: 13 Jan 2009 11:18:05
Message: <496cbebd$1@news.povray.org>
Does anybody know of a way to make the Unix "dd" tool *not* abort if the 
output device has bad blocks? (That's *output*, not input.) I'm trying 
to erase a harddrive, but it appears to be defective. dd keeps giving up 
as soon as it reaches the first bad block.


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