[sllug-members]: fsck and bad sector list

[James Helsby]

All,

I have a 250Gb HD, which was reporting file corruption. As a result, I 
ran an fsck.ext3 -f -y /dev/sdb1 (the device) on it, which resulted in 
me loosing 150 of the 250 GB of space. For some reason, the fsck decided 
that everything was bad-sector, and added it to the bad-sector list.

Here is the problem. I still need the drive. I know that there are no 
physical problems with the disk, and it has since be physically scanned 
for magnetic defects, and low-level formatted. However, both of these 
actions have not cleared the bad-sector list.

Anyone on the list know how to clear a bad-sector list? It is a Maxtor 
DiamondMax 10 (pata133). The system I run it on is Ubuntu 6.10.

Cheers
JH.