Re: [uug] Bad Blocks on external Hard drive

[Devlin Daley]

Almost simultaneously when I received this email badblocks reported so 
many bad blocks that I can't even scroll the terminal enough to see all 
of them.  Looks like this drive is target practice.

Thanks fellows,
Devlin

On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 15:39 -0600, Devlin Daley wrote:

I have the impression that perhaps some blocks have become corrupted on 
the drive, but am not certain.  I ran a utility called badblocks on the 
device, which has not reported any errors yet, but it has been running 
for over 3 hours now. (fortunately without freezing up)
Michael L Torrie wrote:
Yup.  IDE drives internally keep a list of bad blocks, as well as spare
blocks.  As errors are detected, the drive automatically shuffles the
bad blocks out of use and brings in the spares.  By the time you see the
bad blocks, the drive is out of spare good blocks.  This means that
failure is imminent.  
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