On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 05:00:27PM -0400, MBR wrote:
It's now two decades later, and I'm trying to understand what's changed
since then. In particular I recently cloned a laptop drive (IDE) to a
new drive. When I did so, I encountered 2 bad blocks on the new drive.
Based on my
MBR wrote:
In particular I recently cloned a laptop drive (IDE) to a
new drive. When I did so, I encountered 2 bad blocks on the new drive.
What did you use to perform the clone and how were the bad blocks reported?
After doing some web searches and a bit of reading on this, I get the
Also, should I use 'dd' to test all blocks before I put a drive into
service, or is there a better tool out there?
Besides the above tests, I've often used dd for reading and writing
the entire drive as an extra sanity test, and to force overwrites and
possibly reallocate any bad sectors:
Thanks a lot for your very informative response. I'll have to read
through the man-pages for hdparm and smartctl.
Mark
On 4/3/2011 5:57 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 05:00:27PM -0400, MBR wrote:
It's now two decades later, and I'm trying to understand what's changed
