Invisible wrote:
> 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.

I'd be happy if it didn't hang when you tried to seek past the last block of 
the disk and write. :-)

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