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 blocks? (I also get irq timeouts and drive resets, and then the system hangs. Why?)
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? Thank you for your help, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]