hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, sorry, this was meant as a reply to the badblocks question
:)
On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 08:37:55PM -0500, Norbert Veber wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 06:08:21PM -0600, FizzyPop wrote:
> > I keep getting {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }'s and I
> > figure
> > it's all bad blocks. I ran "fsck /dev/hda2" but it only seems to do a
> > cursory examination (not taking nearly as long as the scan when I installed
> > Linux) and I keep getting the same errors after presumably correcting them.
> > So I was wondering what the utility was to thouroughly check all of the HD
> > for errors.
>
> The command you want is badblocks, I had similar errors a while ago, they
> were caused by my harddrive, well.. dying.. :) Good thing it still had
> warranty..
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