Subject: Re: Bad Sectors on IBM Drive
To: Johan Danielsson <joda@pdc.kth.se>
From: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/27/2001 08:24:42
Well, minix has a tool that gathers the bad sectors into files, sort of what
badsect seems to do.
I really can't replace the drive until I get the data off. I'll accept the
files that got hit, but I've got to get the data off!
Thanks -Mike
On 27 Jun 2001, Johan Danielsson wrote:
> 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