Re: Bad clusters

1999-07-06 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Robert Rati wrote: > How does Linux handle bad clusters or can linux not use a hard drive with > bad clusters? How do you get a report of the bad clusters? I was It should detect them automatically during formatting of the drive. However, a modern IDE or SCSI HD

Bad clusters

1999-07-03 Thread Robert Rati
How does Linux handle bad clusters or can linux not use a hard drive with bad clusters? How do you get a report of the bad clusters? I was formatting a HD in linux and it started taking a REALLY long time near the end of it. In DOS, bad sectors were reported, but it finished formatting. I