disk error

[Brian A. Seklecki]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Peter Boosten wrote:
>
> Brian, thanks for your answer (and sugggestion).
>
> Isn't a drive supposed to mark a bad sector as bad and ignore it (that is:

They ship with a certain number of unallocated sectors to reassign failed 
ones to (I dont think ATA/IDE disks have a way to ask this, maybe SMART).

Once all of the silent allocations happen unbeknown to the user, then your 
suffering starts.

Install smartutils and check these values:

5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct     0x0033   100   100   005    Pre-fail  Always
- 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate           0x000b   100   100   067    Pre-fail  Always 
-       0
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always 
-       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always 
-       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline 
-       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always 
-       0


~BAS

> not use it anymore)?
>
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