Bad Sectors

[Garrett]

I was referring to the tests run by chkdsk/fsck/whatever on individual
sectors, and that the results may differ with each pass if the drive is
truly flaking out. Personally I would make a few passes with badblocks if
the drive's integrity ever came into question. It should also be considered
that chkdsk probably uses different criteria for making a block as "bad"
than badblocks, so what one tool would ignore the other would flag as "bad".

Regardless, keep a backup of your important data handy. ;)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan England" <plug@the-arcanum.org>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: Bad Sectors


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I thought there was a way to map out the bad blocks so the file system
wouldn't use them. If they were marked bad, they wouldn't be used. Is that
not true? And if I can isolate where the blocks are, then partition the
drive
around that, should it be okay? Or are the blocks 'contagious' ? lol

Am 05 Wednesday February, 2003 17:31 schrieb Garrett:
> Could also be that the drive will fail soon. Perhaps when chkdsk (or
> whatever) was testing it, the test criteria caused it to believe xyz
> sectors were bad. If the drive is flaky, those tests could have different
> results when you run them again. It's always good to keep a backup, but I
> wouldn't be surprised if that drive eats some data of yours in the next
> year or two.
>
> Garrett
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim" <farli@deru.com>
> To: "PLUG Discuss" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:55 PM
> Subject: Re: Bad Sectors
>
> > Hmmmm....is it possible that MS DOS is reporting bad blocks in error?
> > Nah - MS software just works, works right, and works every time.
> >
> > ::cough cough::
> >
> > On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 09:47, Nathan England wrote:
> > > I have a hard drive that dos said had bad sectors. I booted the
machine
>
> with a
>
> > > slackware live cd, and ran badblocks on it. badblocks -svvw
> > >
> > > Afterwards, it found no bad blocks, so I formatted it with ext3 and
I'm
>
> using
>
> > > it now. It seems okay and I have filled it, deleted stuff, then filled
>
> it
>
> > > again. What is the deal with bad blocks? Are they really repairable?
> > > Are
>
> they
>
> > > not being used? Or am I going to be having problems soon?
> > >
> > > I don't know how the actual hardware works...
> > >
> > > nathan
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