on 3/19/03 8:20 PM, Bob Robeson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone have any opinion on whether it's OK to continue to use a > drive that "spontaneously" developed bad sectors, or is it more prudent > to just chuck it?
I had to give up on a drive with bad sectors. I tried mapping them out with FWB HDT with no luck. Actually, Lacie SilverLining was an even better utility at attempting such a task, but it too failed. The problem was that one of the bad sectors was placed such that failure would occur before the drive was even one-tenth full. On another drive, failure would occur much later, again that sector couldn't be remapped. But since the sector was so far in, the drive could be used as 700 mb. drive instead of it's original 1 gb. capacity. That was many years ago when 1 gb. was considered a healthy sized drive. I always though that sectors that reported as bad, and couldn't be remapped, were actually sections where the head contacted the platter. Not really sure about that though, I just know that writing to the disk could not get past that point, rendering the drive useless unless the suspect sector was far enough in. Low level formatting did nothing to help. Keep in mind that I'm talking SCSI, which might just be slightly different from IDE on this topic. -Howie -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
