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" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 7:04 PM Subject: Re: Bad Sectors -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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" > To: "PLUG Discuss" > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss - -- Nathan England Arcanum Linux ! nathan at the-arcanum.org jabber id: linuxjunkie@jabber.earth.li "A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular." - --Adlai Stevenson Registered Linux User #189789, Machine #106603 www.sincerechoice.org Spam related material will be forwarded to: uce@ftc.gov -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+QcKzQ7yNnsYcupwRAlnUAJ0XtYBPNeU4FEfOQgD0x903BmtBGgCffUEW Pij5wkYte/z2SPTwDPu7DHo= =+r0g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss