Anyone know how to fix this problem?

[Kam Leo]

On 6/13/05, jim branagan <fedora at themusenashville.com> wrote:
> Paul wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> >>Use "dumpe2fs -b >/tmp/badblocks" to get a list of the bad blocks in
> >>/tmp/badblocks.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >All that returns is Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock in the
> >file.
> >
> >
> >
> >>Edit that file and add an entry for block 1, then
> >>run "badblocks -i /tmp/badblocks" to mark the block as bad.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Given the above error, how am I supposed to add an entry for that? The
> >man page for badblocks isn't exactly revealing much.
> >
> >TTFN
> >
> >Paul
> >
> >
> The ext2/3 file system seems to be able to bypass bad blocks only in
> 'normal' places, not in superblocks or group descriptors.  I have an old
> '80Gb' drive with 5G of bad blocks on it I am able to use successfully
> only by creating an unused partition to shift the superblock into a good
> block, and formatting the remaining 70Gb with 'mke2fs -c -c ...' (of
> course I don't rely on it; it's in a USB enclosure I use for large
> off-net file transfers).
> 

Have you tried using the drive manufacturer's low level formatting
utility to remap the bad sectors?