Subject: Re: Bad Sectors on IBM Drive
To: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
From: Johan Danielsson <joda@pdc.kth.se>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/27/2001 11:22:12
Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com> writes:
> Is there some sort of "scandisk" program to automatically do a
> surface scan and try to move the data to another sector (or just
> mark that sector bad)?
IBM has some kind of dos-based disktool, but it sucks.
> This is, incidentally, an IBM 29G disk about 4 months old. A little
> scary to be developing bad sectors.
What kind, 75 or 60GXP? Replace it.
/Johan