Bad Sectors

[Jim]

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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