thank you guys, never knew about that feature in modern harddrives. so i
rly have to replace the drive.
best regards,
marco
Daniel Lannstrom wrote:
> If a modern hard drive begins to let bad blocks through it's internal
> block relocation mechanics have failed. I recommend to take backup on
> eve
If a modern hard drive begins to let bad blocks through it's internal
block relocation mechanics have failed. I recommend to take backup on
everthing on that disk because this is usually a sign that the disk
will die shortly.
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 07:17:44PM +0100, Marco wrote:
> hej list,
>
during dd tests i encounter hardware problems with my harddisk. is there
a way to mark parts of the hdd as "bad" so those are not used anymore?
not much.
you may label it the way it will skip that part.
anyway - sata/IDE drives has in-hardware bad block remapping. if you see
bad blocks there
hej list,
during dd tests i encounter hardware problems with my harddisk. is there
a way to mark parts of the hdd as "bad" so those are not used anymore?
best regards,
marco
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