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Subject: [ale] harddrive errors
From: esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)
Date: Sun Jun 5 16:45:13 2005
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Chris Farris wrote:
> The 250G drive I bought last summer when Frys open started tossing the
> same errors last weekend. I'll never trust it again with vital data (I'm
> an unforgiving a-hole) but I hate to just toss it. I want to put it in a
> USB/Firewire enclosure and use it for swapping mp3s. 
> 
> Anyone know if running the lowlevel format tools will mark the new bad
> areas and allow this drive to be used again.

I don't know that that is necessary.  Depends on the filesystem, but 
e2fsck -c will (supposedly) mark bad blocks.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

References:
- [ale] harddrive errors
  - From: jb at sourceillustrated.com (John Wells)
- [ale] harddrive errors
  - From: jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)
- [ale] harddrive errors
  - From: jb at sourceillustrated.com (John Wells)
- [ale] harddrive errors
  - From: jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)
- [ale] harddrive errors
  - From: jcf at primeharbor.com (Chris Farris)

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