I believe that "check for bad blocks" runs the badblocks command with the -w option. It writes a pattern to every block and then reads it to check that it's OK. Jan On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 06:01, Aaron Trumm wrote: > Well, y'all, to continue this little discussion > > Fernando asked what the exact error I got was, when I was trying to > REINSTALL RedHat - it was: > > Invalid argument during seek for read on /dev/hda > > I actually gathered up backups (what I had) and swapped drives around, put > the drive in question in another machine as slave, the machine booted fine > of course but this drive failed to mount, and Gnome's hardware browswer > showed the drive, but the root partition said "no filesystem" Then I > swapped some more and it now sits alone in a machine, and I'm attempting to > wipe clean and install Red Hat, and I'm getting the above error periodically > during the preparation stage (before you actually click "install") > > Sounds like bad disk to ME - but I'm going forward with the install just for > fun. Told disk druid to check for bad blocks. Is this going to format the > drive, low level format, or just? what? - i dunno what other options I > would put in that list *laugh* > > fun fun fun >
