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> Does one percent bad blocks for a brand new, just out of the 
> box, hard drive sound unusual?

If it's a Maxtor, not at all. If it IS a Maxtor, I'd return it. 

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Thus Spake Sean Kilpatrick &lt;drifter at oppositelock.org&gt;:
Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:16:20 -0500


&gt; On Tuesday 01 February 2005 10:57 am, Christopher R. Curzio wrote:
&gt; | I think it would be far easier to just cat /proc/partitions or look
&gt; | for the entry in dmesg.
&gt; 
&gt; 
&gt; Actually the problem turns out to be a simple typing error.
&gt; I should have typed:
&gt; mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/backup
&gt; 
&gt; but what I typed was &quot;/dev/sda&quot;
&gt; 
&gt; So now I have a different question:  What happened to
&gt; 6.2 gigs of hard drive space?  When I do an &lt;ls -al&gt; on the
&gt; drive the only thing that shows up is a 16k &quot;lost+found&quot; directory.
&gt; 
&gt; running the &lt;df&gt; command I get this:
&gt; 
&gt; /dev/sda1            153834852     94284 153740568   1% /mnt/backup
&gt; 
&gt; I carefully ran the format command to NOT withhold any space for
&gt; root.  Reading /var/log/messages it looks like the formatting
&gt; command did find a few bad blocks. Does one percent bad blocks 
&gt; for a brand new, just out of the box, hard drive sound unusual?
&gt; 
&gt; At this point I'm not complaining as 153 GB is certainly adequate for
&gt; storing my photo collection. Even at 30 mgb a scan, I'm not going to
&gt; run out of space any time soon.
&gt; 
&gt; Sean
&gt; 
&gt; 


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