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- From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
- Subject: Re: Bad blocks (?) on hard disk
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.045718.22220@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:57:18 GMT
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- 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... ;)
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- Ed Carp erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com 801/538-0177
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- "It is your resistance to 'what is' that causes your suffering." -- Buddha
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