Dear All,
I would like to put linux on a Samsung harddisk with a lot of bad sectors.
Testing with tomsrtbt installed on a 100MB partition of the disk learned
that more than 2.2 GigaByte of 2.4 can be used without problems.
I could not find a low level format program to be used. So I used Ontrack
under DOS. This utility puts the bad clusters in the FAT table and marks
them. Then I can use the DOS partition as clean partition. But the FAT table
is on the partition!!!
Under tomsrtbt I used e2fsck -cf . It tells me about a lot of bad sectors
and says: Unrecoverable error.
Is there for linux a utillity that works like the Ontrack program to
isolate the bad sectors? Then I could use the disk to put a linux
distribution on it.
--Piet
