On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Peter Boosten wrote:
Brian, thanks for your answer (and sugggestion).
Isn't a drive supposed to mark a bad sector as bad and ignore it (that is:
They ship with a certain number of unallocated sectors to reassign failed
ones to (I dont think ATA/IDE disks have a way to ask this, maybe SMART).
Once all of the silent allocations happen unbeknown to the user, then your
suffering starts.
Install smartutils and check these values:
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always
- 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always
- 0
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always
- 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always
- 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline
- 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always
- 0
~BAS
not use it anymore)?
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