[Parted-maintainers] Bug#239816: Preliminary Bad Sectors List support added in SVN

K.G. k_guillaume at libertysurf.fr
Thu Oct 20 14:43:18 UTC 2005


Some limited Bad Sectors List support has been added in the
SVN.

This should lead to a better compatibility with HDX.

An empty Bad Sectors List is created in sector 1 while
creating an Atari disklabel, it contains the same things
that atari-fdisk write when using the b command and option

3: create HDX compatible empty bad sector list
   (Note: Only necessary if you want to use also HDX on this disk)


If an existing Atari table is read and edited by Parted,
an existing Bad Sectors List will remain untouched (and you
won't be able to put a partition overlapping the BSL).

You can't delete or move the BSL with Parted. The only
way to get ride of it if it prevent you from editing the
partitions like you want is to create a new Atari disklabel
(mklabel atari) which will put the HDX compatible BSL in
sector 1 (just after the AHDI table at sector 0),
but that will delete every partitions.
Alternatively you can edit the position of the BSL with
atari-fdisk (which I think fill it as an empty BSL
anyway)




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