Re: how to cope with bad blocks (and off-topic: WD warranty policy)

1998-04-13 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hi, I have now some bad blocks on my 2-year-old WD Caviar IDE drive. I'm not overly concerned, because I have a brand new SeaGate, on where I install hamm atm, but I wonder if linux can mark bad blacks as 'used', so that it doesn't write on them anymore. Or how do you cope with bad

Re: how to cope with bad blocks (and off-topic: WD warranty policy)

1998-04-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 02:55:29PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 04:09:50PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: I have now some bad blocks on my 2-year-old WD Caviar IDE drive. I'm not overly concerned, because I have a brand new SeaGate, on where I install hamm atm,

Re: how to cope with bad blocks (and off-topic: WD warranty policy)

1998-04-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 02:55:29PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 04:09:50PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: I have now some bad blocks on my 2-year-old WD Caviar IDE drive. I'm not overly concerned, because I have a brand new SeaGate, on where I install hamm atm,

Re: how to cope with bad blocks (and off-topic: WD warranty policy)

1998-04-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 04:09:50PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: I have now some bad blocks on my 2-year-old WD Caviar IDE drive. I'm not overly concerned, because I have a brand new SeaGate, on where I install hamm atm, but I wonder if linux can mark bad blacks as 'used', so that it doesn't

Re: how to cope with bad blocks (and off-topic: WD warranty policy)

1998-04-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
The drive has a three year warranty. Will WD fix the drive or sent me a new one because of bad blocks? Has anyone has experience with WD warranty? Should I try to make heavy use of the drive to detect more (soon to be) bad blocks, as long as I have warranty? If the drive is actively

Re: how to cope with bad blocks (and off-topic: WD warranty policy)

1998-04-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 12:14:33AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 04:09:50PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: I have now some bad blocks on my 2-year-old WD Caviar IDE drive. I'm not overly concerned, because I have a brand new SeaGate, on where I install hamm atm, but I