From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) Subject: Re: Bad blocks (?) on hard disk Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:57:18 GMT
Terry Carlin (tgc@world.std.com) wrote:
: Well, my experiences tell me it works at least with the 1542
: controller. I just got an old 20 meg SCSI drive which used to sit on
: a Mac. I partitioned it and did the mkfs -c /dev/sda1 20000. Worked
: well. It found and marked ~15 bad blocks. To test it out, I tar'ed
: a 60 meg disk over to the 20 meg drive until it complained about
: running out of space. I then did a dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/null and
: it went without error. I guess I could really put it through a long
: repeating test, but I probably won't put anything on it that would
: be critical, 'cause the disk is ~5 years old and may bite the dust at
: any sec.
It used not to work, but Linus tells me that this was fixed around 0.98.5
or so.
I hope he's right... ;)
-- Ed Carp erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com 801/538-0177"It is your resistance to 'what is' that causes your suffering." -- Buddha