On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, John Summerfield wrote:
Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, John Summerfield wrote:
This isn't specific to EL5 though I'm sure folk here are interested. I'm
subscribed to several lists, none ideal for this question.
I have Western Digital ATA drive that has a missing address marker.
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There is, as far as I know, no problem with my data, but I would like to
try a low-level format of the failed track(s).
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Does anyone know of a program that can be used to do this?
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Have you tried Western Digital's own tools (disclaimer: I haven't)?
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=501&lang=en
That's where I started. They are a _diagnosis_ tool which, from its
description, does no repair, and a setup tool which I assume has a driver and
maybe partitioning tools; its description says nothing about repair.
This might be useful:
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/BadBlockHowTo.txt
It doesn't talk about address block errors, but it does have the steps to
go from an LBA address to the file path. It talks about writing zeros to a
bad sector to force reallocation, but I'm not entirely sure you can
reallocate sector 0.
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Sam
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