But in general, once the OS starts seeing bad blocks, the disk is at death's
door. (Stone-age disks needed the OS to manage them, but new ones manage bad
blocks automatically).
-J
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Michael Halcrow wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Devlin Daley wrote:
> > Is the hard drive toast if bad blocks are found? I thought that the
> > hard drive could keep track of bad sectors and just not write anything
> > to them, if so, how it is instructed to do so?
>
> Bad blocks would be marked as such at the filesystem level when you
> ran e2fsck -c, and those blocks would then never be accessed.
>
> Mike
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