Bruno Buys wrote: > belbo wrote: > >> Bruno Buys wrote: >> >> >>> belbo wrote: >>> >> >> [...] >> >> [...] >> I did "fsck.ext3 -c /dev/hdb5". It finds many badblock, but it is >> useless. How >> can I avoid badblocks? >> >> Bye >> >> >> >> > You can have good practices, to avoid exposing the drive to unnecessary > danger, like mechanic impact, eletric fields or bad power supply. All > this won't make sure you are safe from badblocks, but will hopefully > help. But this is BEFORE the problem. After badblocks appear, theres > nothing to do to save the drive, unless you believe in magic, vodoo, > freezing the drive and then warming it up and other folk stories... > What you can try to do is save whatever data is possible to be saved > from it, backing it all up. Do it soon. > Good luck!
If there are BadBlocks in my hard drive, the driver normally can manage them, simply not using them. I wanted to ask if there is some sort of hdparm (or sth like that) option to tell the driver "hey, avoid the badblocks". Thank you, Bye -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
