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If it's bad sectors then it could still be used again after a badblocks
run. But the DriveReady Seek errors I've seen have been problems with
the drive being able to put the head in the right place. I am reasonably
sure that bad sector errors are different (but I could be wrong and my
wife can verify that :).
> 
> 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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