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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.
Doesn't answer your specific question, but perhaps dban would be a
better alternative? Granted, I don't know if it would perhaps gag on
bad blocks as well.
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