the company is sending me a new drive. the drive has a windows partition
that's okay...so i can still use it for diablo II. ;-)
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi Jack ;^)
>
> Well I'd hope whoever wrote the IDE drivers wouldn't let it try to write
> beyond the physical media regardless of the file size. That said, I've
> got a laptop drive that exibits similar behavior, usually only when
> swapping heavily. I suspect there are some bad blocks that are getting
> hit, only in those extreme instances. I did salvage part of a bad hard
> drive recently when I was in pinch for some extra storage by running
>
> badblocks -o blocklist.txt /dev/hdax
>
> Then using this list for mke2fs:
>
> mke2fs -l blocklist.txt /dev/hdax
>
> Of course you'll need to back everything up before doing this ;^)
> I wouldn't use the drive for anything critical either after this, becuse
> there are probably more bad blocks on the way. I'm just using mine to
> boot up a system that won't see my new 30GB drive.
>
> Stew Benedict
>
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, jack wallen, jr wrote:
>
> > my hard drive is failing (running Red Hat 7.0) and last night i discovered
> > it making the insidious 'clicking sound' only when trying to log to
>
>
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