Had to answer this one. As far as a new HD NOW, I did, around 4 yrs ago, but decided to keep using this one as well untill it really died, which it hasnt yet!! Its also been moved into different machines a number of times, with no change. The drive has been losing sectors at this rate for approx 4 yrs. Its an old seagate 2.1 gig on my daughters PC that gets used for WP & browsing an a few games. Total lost sector count stabilizes around 300-400 or so after a few months. e2fsk or dos scandisk never pick up all the sectors at once, tho scandisk seems better initially - picks up around a hundred on install, e2fsck only gets a dozen or so on install. Eventually I will replace it, but seems like it will go on in this fashion for a few more years yet, so I am unwilling to spend at this time, raticularly if there is a satisfactory work around - its just anoying having to fsck it every so often! As to the mechanism of a failure of this type, I dont know as I have never seen a drive fail in this fashion and keep going for so long before. BillK Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 08:43:08AM +0800, BillK wrote: > > Question: I am looking for real world experiance from someone on how > > well does the ReiserFS handle bad spots on a HD. I have a disk that > > loses a 1-5 sectors a week. M$ installs and within a week or so crashes > > so badly that a reinstall is needed. Ext2 just requires an e2fsck every > > 2-3 weeks to keep on top of them, tho an occaisional file is lost. So > > does ReiserFS handle such things transparently/dynamicly? Are there > > disk repair utilities? - are they needed for such a problem? I > > reinstalled ext2 on this machine recently as its proven its worth in > > this case, but is ReiserFS a better choice? > > I don't know how long you have been loosing sectors at this rate, but > however long it is, you have been living on borrowed time. That is usually > an indicator that your drive is about to go belly up. Get a new hard > drive. NOW. > > On the other tentacle, have you opened up the box and re-seated all the > cables, power cords, memory modules and socketed ICs? That could be the > source of this problem. > > -- > > -- C^2 > > No windows were crashed in the making of this email. > > Looking for fine software and/or web pages? > http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
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