On 8/1/05, Ilya Konstantinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shouldn't modern drives do it automatically? From what I read, every > modern drive comes with some spare sectors to allow migrating data from > damaged sectors. There's also a S.M.A.R.T statistics value (check with > your 'smartctl' utility) indicating how many sectors were moved.
Thanks for the reminder about SMART (also goes to Peter). I'll check and see what SMART says. Already have a 200Gb disk waiting at home (didn't have any smaller parallel IDE disk at the store). Cheers, --Amos (It's funny the "recovery environment" I have today - a simple live Ubuntu CD, including complete and automatic network access, automatic removable device detection (I use the 16Mb CompactFlash disk which came with my digital camera as a temporary backup device for crucial stuff) etc. My wife though I fixed the computer this morning and startted looking for Skype, compare this to the days of "wow! we have 8 virtual consoles!" :-) ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
