Re: Feature request: Check read sectors for known 'bad data'

2022-07-26 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz
Hello Eliyahu, Eliyahu Saks wrote: Sometimes when a disk head is failing, a read will be successful but the actual returned data is garbage - but consistent 'known' garbage. It would be helpful if the read buffer would be checked for matches to the known pattern and be marked as bad sectors.

Feature request: Check read sectors for known 'bad data'

2022-07-22 Thread Eliyahu Saks
Sometimes when a disk head is failing, a read will be successful but the actual returned data is garbage - but consistent 'known' garbage. It would be helpful if the read buffer would be checked for matches to the known pattern and be marked as bad sectors. Files containing the search pattern