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Anyone know if running the lowlevel format tools will mark the new bad
areas and allow this drive to be used again.

Thanks
Chris

On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 11:48, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 11:22 -0400, John Wells wrote:
> > James P. Kinney III said:
> > > 1. Did you replace the IDE cable with a brand new, un-mangled one? IDE
> > > cables have very fine wires that can't take being bent around much. The
> > > 80 wire cables are quite fragile. They feel stiff mostly because of the
> > > insulation. I believe the wire inside are around 30 gauge.
> > 
> > Ok...the IDE cable does appear a bit mangled, so I'm going to replace. 
> > Power supply (350W) should be adequate.
> > 
> > After replacing the cable, how can I stress test it to see if any more
> > errors occur?
> 
> Boot from a CD or floppy like Toms RootBoot or Knoppix. Generate a large
> file (if you use Knoppix, copy the compressed image file to the hard
> drive) and make another copy of it from the hard drive file. This will
> force the system to do both reads and writes and exercise the head
> motion with lots of Seeks. While you do this, have a shell open tailing
> the systemlog file.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > John
> > 
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