On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:13:13AM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:15:48PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > 
> > Your drive has some bad blocks.
> > If the INFO FIELD is always the same (or shows a limited number of sector)
> > you can try to remap them (scsictl sd0 remap 2126497), if there's a lot of
> > them you'd probably better change your disk.
> > 
> 
> Sometimes you can extend the life of the disk by "freshening" the
> format by reformatting the drive (scsictl sd0 format).  You could be

Yes, I forgot to say this. I've sometimes had good success reformating old
drives, but it doesn't always work.

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