Bad sector marking

[Mr Whippy]

How about a feature that marks out clusters where possible bad areas are? For example when playing a audio file you hear it reading in and retrying (bad sectors) you then tell Rockbox to mark that file as a location of possible bad sectors. The file location is written to a text file. You could then run a HD scan on that file/cluster area 100 times to specially mark bad areas.

[karashata]

That would be something better done with a disc-checking utility on the computer side, if you suspect bad sectors to be forming...

[dreamlayers]

You can already create a bookmark or shortcut to a failing file.  Later you can use it to narrow down the area that needs to be scanned. 

I also think that scans should be done via a computer.

[bluebrother]

You can already create a bookmark or shortcut to a failing file.

I'd use the playlist catalog for that. If it's an audio file

[Llorean]

badsongs.m3u or something like that?