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 -
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On Mar 23, 5:54 am, insightinmind <billycarm...@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Mar 22, 2009, at 10:58 PM, tortoise wrote:
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> > 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
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