<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpd61ea4c3yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><div style=""><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">my plan is to scan a disk for usable sectors and map the logical volume</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">> </font><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">around the broken sectors.</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">1977 called, they'd like their non-self-correcting HD controller implementations back.</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">From a real-world perspective there is ZERO (more like negative) utility to this exercise. Controllers remap blocks all on their own and the so-called geometry is entirely fictitious anyway. From a script/program "because I want to" perspective you could leave LVM entirely out of it and just use a file with arbitrary offsets scribbled with a "bad" signature.</font></div></div></div></body></html>