Hi folks,
anybody out there who can explain this goodie to me?
I got a Fujitsu M2954SYU 4.3GB SCSI drive the other day, basically to
experiment with (its previous owner regards it as dodgy).
So I hooked it up, found an old Win 9x partition and 2.1GB of unusd
space, which I formatted into a Linux ext2 partition.
On running mke2fs -c , the "badblocks" step didn't report any problems,
but while writing the inodes, I got a bunch of "sense key Hardware
Error" messages in my console. Too bad, drive dead - I thought.
Just for the heck of it I reran "mke2fs -c" twice more and lo and
behold, all errors gone except one - which vanished after an additional
"fsck -f" run. I then proceeded to move about 1GB data around on that
drive and got no errors so far.
Now, I'd be reluctant to make that particular drive my primary, but how
can it be that bad blocks or whatever it was simply vanish?
Related to that: Is anybody aware of a "stress test" program for a disk?
Something that fills the whole partition with data and reads it again to
compare and find faults?
Thanks,
Thomas
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