-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:11:36PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > This is pretty misleading, since every harddisk made comes from the > factory w/ bad blocks. Yes, if you start seeing more bad blocks show > up, you've got problems, but the the very fact that bad blocks exist > doesn't mean that your disk is bad. Disks also have a number of reserved blocks, which will automatically be used to replace bad blocks. The fact that he's seeing bad blocks means the disk is out of reserved blocks, and the drive is only going to get worse as time goes on. Better to replace the drive now then to have to deal with cleaning up the mess later. - -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+FMWOHEnASN++rQIRAjoWAJ0dIzDCHPuMSw0i9b9BcFbHP/0V0ACggbcH 6bByfGDiinV3DIxBrPRrJ7g= =G9ne -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
