LPF15 wrote:
The first thing is that the drive has some bad sectors that are not all detected. It picks up a few but once you starting writing to it runs into problems.
Careful. Modern drives (30GB counts as modern), will automatically remap a sector that is starting to go bad to a known good sector that is found in a normally unreachable area of the hard drive. This all happens transparently to the user. So, when you *do* start to find sectors that are going bad, it usually means that there are a whole bunch of other bad sectors that have already been remapped, and there are no more good special hidden sectors to remap to. In other words, your disk may well be on its last legs anyway.
As for partitioning, making a FS, and mounting, I use fdisk, mkfs, and mount (OK, not very helpful, but it's a pointer in the right direction)
Cheers, Carl.
