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Rockbox Development => Feature Ideas => Topic started by: Mr Whippy on March 07, 2009, 11:56:04 AM

Title: Bad sector marking
Post by: Mr Whippy on March 07, 2009, 11:56:04 AM

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.

Title: Re: Bad sector marking
Post by: karashata on March 07, 2009, 02:25:23 PM

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

Title: Re: Bad sector marking
Post by: dreamlayers on March 07, 2009, 05:35:23 PM

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.

Title: Re: Bad sector marking
Post by: bluebrother on March 07, 2009, 06:59:37 PM

Quote from: dreamlayers on March 07, 2009, 05:35:23 PM

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 :)

Title: Re: Bad sector marking
Post by: Llorean on March 07, 2009, 07:05:14 PM

badsongs.m3u or something like that?