Yes. There is no option to tell badblocks that there are already bad
blocks. So, badblocks finds those bad blocks regardless of if they are
already known to the file system.
You should however try to reassign defective sectors, for SCSI drives,
you can try sformat by Jörg Schily (should be on SunSITE if I recall
correctly), for IDE drives, you will probably need to check with the
vendor, many of them provide you with a free disk analysis/repair tool
(like Western Digital).
When using Jörg Schily's sformat (which was originally written for Sun
boxes), make sure you have enough sga..sgx symlinks in /dev since
otherwise some devices might not show up in the list.
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