Evening Trevor, > Philip, > > Nice link there. Am trying to figure out how to go > about......since the disk seems to have bad sectors. > Even a fdisk -l gives io errors. <snip> Disk having bad sector will give you fdisk -l information. In case if you are using HBA's or SCSI controller ( i.e. PERC 4/D ), you might get "Unable to get access to /dev/sd?". and purely 'cause of HBA's or SCSI controller.
fdisk -l only reads the gemotery information of the disk ( Which is not placed on the sector ( for data information ). Regards, Animesh. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
