On 30/8/20 8:19 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote:
There's also the badblocks program, which can be set up either to do a
nondestructive read-only test for bad blocks, or a more throrough
destructive test, where it writes every block and later checks tht it
can read it correctly again, using a variety of bit patterns.
That might make the hard drive reassign the bad blocks on its own.
If the hard drive doesn't do that,
.... then it's ready for the bin.
If the drive can't reallocate sectors it's due to a catastrophic failure and
means it's out of spare sectors.
Drives come from the factory with "lots" of spare sectors, so if it's out then
the drive has both feet, 8 fingers and a thumb in the grave.
Regards,
Brad
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