On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:18:02 +0000, 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.

The man page suggests "noerror" might be the option you're looking for....

Jim

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