From: davesimp@soda.berkeley.edu (David Simpson) Subject: Re: bad blocks Date: 14 Mar 1993 02:01:11 GMT
liljeber@kypros.Helsinki.FI (Mika Liljeberg) writes:
>If you find that you have neglected to map out
>bad blocks when doing the low-level format, it is still possible to
>scan for errors non-destructively. There are several commercial
>packages, some BIOSes and probably also many PD packages that can do
>this.
>Mika
Do you know of any of these programs that might be available for linux? I
have the Norton Utilites, but as far as I know, they haven't been ported
to Linux and the minix filesystem :}. But anyway, I seem to be having
more than my fair share of disk errors, and I think either my hard-drive
or controller is going the way of the junk heap on me. I get intermitant
errors at boot time (before it even goes to linux or dos) and when I eventually
get it to load an O/S, it dies on me in a few minutes. Oh well... time to
upgrade that hard drive.
-- .David Simpson....................................................... ........................................davesimp@soda.Berkeley.EDU... ..University of California, Berkeley................................. .....................................................................