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.

Dunno if they help in that direction, but have you tried ddrescue or
dd_rescue?

-Aero

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