retries on bad blocks on screwed-up IDE drives

[David Monniaux]

Hi,

I'd like to make a physical copy of a failing IDE drive. The problem is, 
I don't know in advance where the bad sectors lie. As a consequence, the 
copying process tries to copy those sectors; for each failing sector, 
the kernel tries, gets an error, tries again etc...

Is it possible to ask the kernel to give up immediately on a failed IDE 
sector?

Regards.

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