On Mar 22, 2009, at 10:58 PM, tortoise wrote:
> > I'd like the thank the originator of this tip. > > I had a few drives reporting bad spots (in the full SMART report which > you get only when you download the source and build it; and also when > I tried to secure erase I got write errors *sometimes* w/ hangs, noted > in apple console logs) > > > Yes, erasing at the drive level rather than the partition level, with > secure erase, eliminated the errors. > > Of some concern to me of course if more bad spots turn up. Had one > drive turn up no more for four years (formatted free space around the > spot) and another got another in 6 months, or anyway the files ran > into it -- all this before I even knew about secure erase at all... PATA (SATA) drives (Seagate's anyway) are only warranty-ed for 3 years now ... use to be 5. I have a few that are lasting longer than that, but I am getting ready to replace them just the same. I believe the bad sectors are mapped out, even when zeroing the partitions ... as someone said, the controller doesn't function around partition boundaries (my paraphrasing). Still not sure of the answer here. I'm wondering if the information about the partitions might have been in bad sectors themselves on your drive ... or in sectors going bad ... maybe that's where the problems were. Re-partitioning with zeroing would fix that. Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
