S.M.A.R.T. should do this for you.
It should remap bad spots and warn you of any as they occur. Though the
messages are still a bit cryptic... "This drive is developing problems...
please replace".
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Curley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 8:03 AM
To: Jose M. Sanchez
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] My suggestion for the install process on the New
Distro....
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 01:55:29AM -0400, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
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-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Charles Curley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
-> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 4:47 PM
-> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-> Subject: Re: [expert] My suggestion for the install process on the New
-> Distro....
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-> Second, I'm not sure it is necessary. Thes days, bad block handling
should
-> be left to the hard drive. On SCSI since day 1 and IDE since at least 10
-> years ago, the hard drive smarts handle bad blocks in a manner
transparent
-> to the user. If you start to see bad blocks, it is time to buy a new hard
-> drive.
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-> ---
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-> Yes... now with drives with the S.M.A.R.T. capabilities bad block
handling
-> is just time consuming...
Not entirely. I still want to know when bad blocks start to show up so I
can go get another hard drive. Fast.
Although even that may be my over-cautious nature. I have two Western
Digital 400 MB IDE drives in my 486 server. Both are more than 5 years
old, both are on 24x7, and both run just fine. But I still back 'em up!
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