Re: Is it safe to use disk with many bad blocks?
on Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 08:02:17PM -0400, Ben Russo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have an 80GB hard disk. badblocks shows that it has about 78M blocks. The first 50 million or so can be checked (write patterns) for many days with no problems. Beyond that I start to get errors. Does anyone have any experience with creating a partition in the good part of the disk and just ignoring the rest? Late add: check to see if your HD is SMART-enabled. Install the smartmontools package and see if the badblocks allowance is within allowed ranges, and/or if the SMART tests pass or fail. Most disks from the past 3-4 years *will* be SMART capable. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of having a computer in your own home. - Ed Yourdon, _Techniques of Program Structure and Design_, 1975 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Is it safe to use disk with many bad blocks?
I have an 80GB hard disk. badblocks shows that it has about 78M blocks. The first 50 million or so can be checked (write patterns) for many days with no problems. Beyond that I start to get errors. Does anyone have any experience with creating a partition in the good part of the disk and just ignoring the rest? -Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it safe to use disk with many bad blocks?
Ben Russo wrote: I have an 80GB hard disk. badblocks shows that it has about 78M blocks. The first 50 million or so can be checked (write patterns) for many days with no problems. Beyond that I start to get errors. Does anyone have any experience with creating a partition in the good part of the disk and just ignoring the rest? _I_ wouldn't use it. If it's under waranty, get it replaced. Before this, check with your drive's manufacturer's website. Some have diagnostics you can run. IBM's used to be somewhere under www.ibm.com/harddrive - I expect it would take you to Hitachi now. I think the latest version of IBM's DFT can test other vendors drives too. IBM's is especially friendly to Linux users as it comes as a floppy disk image which contains PCDOS2000. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
