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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