badblocks on sata drive
Wojciech Puchar
wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Sun Mar 1 10:23:56 PST 2009
>
> during dd tests i encounter hardware problems with my harddisk. is there
> a way to mark parts of the hdd as "bad" so those are not used anymore?
not much.
you may label it the way it will skip that part.
anyway - sata/IDE drives has in-hardware bad block remapping. if you see
bad blocks there is already out of space for remapping.
OR - just something was recorded badly some time ago.
clear whole drive with zeros and then retest. there is high change problem
will go out.
if not - don't use that drive for anything valuable at all
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