Amos Shapira wrote:
Hi,
Following the discussion about how it's impossible to
do low-level format for IDE drives, I bought a new drive,
installed the system on it and left the old drive alone.
Mostly for curiosity, I ran "smartctl -t long /dev/hdb"
on the old drive but getting back to the comp
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Peter wrote:
Afaik modern drives do the mapping silently using spare sectors in each
track. You get bad blocks when the drive runs out of spare sectors.
It seems that this is not exactly correct. Modern drives do automatic
remapping if and only if
Peter wrote:
Afaik modern drives do the mapping silently using spare sectors in
each track. You get bad blocks when the drive runs out of spare sectors.
It seems that this is not exactly correct. Modern drives do automatic
remapping if and only if they managed to correctly read the data once
Hello,
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On 8/1/05, Ilya Konstantinov
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Shouldn't modern drives do it automatically? From what I read, every
modern drive comes with some spare sectors to allow migrating data from
damaged sectors. There's also a S.M.A.R.T statistics value (ch
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:03:07PM +0300, Oron Peled wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 August 2005 12:48, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> > I found that they had a disk tools...
> > BTW, it was free
>
> Free of charge... (or did it had the source with some FOSS license :-)
Free of change as in not $89.
Geof
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 12:48, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> I found that they had a disk tools...
> BTW, it was free
Free of charge... (or did it had the source with some FOSS license :-)
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On 8/1/05, Ilya Konstantinov
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Shouldn't modern drives do it automatically? From what I read, every
> modern drive comes with some spare sectors to allow migrating data from
> damaged sectors. There's also a S.M.A.R.T statistics value (check with
> your 'smartctl' utility
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 07:23:28PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote:
> On 8/2/05, Yedidyah Bar-David
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would still be interested in an answer to your question.
> > I know (and used) such tools for SCSI disks, not IDE.
>
> Found it at grc.com.
> See the reply to the questi
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 07:23:28PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote:
> Found it at grc.com.
> See the reply to the question titled "Can SpinRite low-level format my
> IDE, EIDE, or SCSI drive?" at http://grc.com/sr/faq.htm:
I recently had a similar problem with an IDE drive from Seagate.
It had one bad s
On 8/2/05, Yedidyah Bar-David
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would still be interested in an answer to your question.
> I know (and used) such tools for SCSI disks, not IDE.
Found it at grc.com.
See the reply to the question titled "Can SpinRite low-level format my
IDE, EIDE, or SCSI drive?" at ht
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:01:55AM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote:
> On 8/1/05, Karasik, Vitaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > According to e2fsck manpage, you should run fsck -cc (man e2fsck) for
> > marking bad blocks.
> > I haven't tried this.
>
> That's not low-level format - what it does is to tel
mean there were a lot of replacements in that area of reading.
Regards,
tzahi.
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amos Shapira
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 1:02 AM
> To: linux-il
> Subject: Re: low-level format
On 8/1/05, Karasik, Vitaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> According to e2fsck manpage, you should run fsck -cc (man e2fsck) for
> marking bad blocks.
> I haven't tried this.
That's not low-level format - what it does is to tell the filesystem code how
to avoid bad blocks. But if I want to install, e
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amos Shapira
> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 3:04 AM
> To: linux-il
> Subject: low-level formatting?
>
> Hello,
>
> Running "badblocks -n" on my hard drive I found a couple
> hundred of bad blocks
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Amos Shapira wrote:
Hello,
Running "badblocks -n" on my hard drive I found a couple hundred
of bad blocks, apparently pretty well concentrated in two areas.
I intend to buy a new drive but still trying to make use of this 80Gb
Maxtor drive I googled for "low level format"
Amos Shapira wrote:
Hello,
Running "badblocks -n" on my hard drive I found a couple hundred
of bad blocks, apparently pretty well concentrated in two areas.
I intend to buy a new drive but still trying to make use of this 80Gb
Maxtor drive I googled for "low level format" (the type that asks t
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