On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 04:09:50PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > I have now some bad blocks on my 2-year-old WD Caviar IDE drive. I'm not > overly concerned, because I have a brand new SeaGate, on where I install > hamm atm, but I wonder if linux can mark bad blacks as 'used', so that it > doesn't write on them anymore. Or how do you cope with bad blocks? > (I also get irq timeouts and drive resets, and then the system hangs. Why?)
"e2fsck -c /dev/device" will do it. I believe the IRQ timeouts and drive resets are a symptom of bad blocks, they were when I got some here. Actually, most of the IRQ timeouts and drive resets were caused by a faulty power supply in that machine. I replaced it, and found one bad blocks with e2fsck, and the machine has been perfect ever since. (Up 62 days, exactly 62 days since I replaced that power supply.) > The drive has a three year warranty. Will WD fix the drive or sent me a new > one because of bad blocks? Has anyone has experience with WD warranty? > Should I try to make heavy use of the drive to detect more (soon to be) bad > blocks, as long as I have warranty? It's worth calling them. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
