On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Xuan Baldauf wrote: > And I'd like to say that clearing the drive for recovering wandered tracks is > not really needed. Trying to rewrite the affected area using dd is sufficient > in most cases (although you may need to try multiple times). Not in the case of damned IBM 75GXP drives. I have 75% failure rate on these, 3 out of 4 drives failed, after 3 dd's on each drive, 2 of them failed again within 2 weeks. Stay away from 75GXP. -alex
