Hi Orlando!
Thanks for enlightening me. Its my third hard disk to crash. Sadly, the
Linux in this hard disk was only 2-3 weeks old! Say, i only need to do some
perl programming, so can i do perl programming using 1.44 floppies so that i
won't need to reformat/repartition my other hard disk? Unfortunately, that
means i won't be able to test the cgi program because i am not in a
networked environment, and no gui based web browser to test it. It is really
bad luck!
>ALL new drives have reserved cylinders. Thus when bad sectors are
>detected, the data in those sectors is automagically moved to the reserved
>cylinders, so your OS does not see the bad sectors (this reserved
>cylinders and moving is done by the drive FIRMWARE).
>So if your SMART sees bad sectors, that means your drive has expended its
>entire supply of reserved cylinders. Which means your drive is going down
>the drain. Which means you ought to throw it out or have it
>warranty-claimed.
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