weirdami wrote:
You should be able to block access to the bad parts of a drive. I know I did it a few times on floppy disks. You might need to format it to pull that off, though. I don't remember the details.
Running Quarterback Tools (commercial) or using Badformat (aminet) will make the bad blocks unreachable/useless to FFS (Fast File System) or OFS (Original File System).