On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 06:09:05PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> I have a laptop disk which seems to have developed a bad spot.  Can
> anyone tell me how to reformat the drive?  Or is that not done on IDE
> drives, and all I can do is partition around the bad spot?

As already pointed out, you have to write to a bad block to remap it.
There's no standart way of reformatting a drive, but some vendors have
tools available from their web server to do drives diagnostics, and
eventually do a low-level format.

> 
> The drive is
> 
> wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: <TOSHIBA MK6409MAV>

Hum, you'll have to find the real manufacturer name if you want to use
vendor-specific tools.

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