Greetings ( + )!( + ) Checking with Western Digital and Seagate, they have an application that runs on a WINTEL PCEE that will do the "low-level" format which will mark, i.e. remove the bad sectors from the drive but fortunately I haven't own a WinTel (DOS) computer for more than 30 years.
Cheers - Harry - ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?º?ø On Mar 23, 5:54 am, insightinmind <billycarm...@verizon.net> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
