Subject: Re: Bad block on disk (hardware failure)
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
From: Eric Delcamp <e.delcamp@wanadoo.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/07/2003 17:18:13
Already done ;)

BTW, I think the problem is elsewhere. Even if I make a very small partition,
anywhere on the disk, there is a R/W error. This is an "old" disk that worked
fine under WinXP, except the error on one partition (but other partitions was
good). I will investigate further.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederick Bruckman" <fredb@immanent.net>
To: "Eric Delcamp" <e.delcamp@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: Bad block on disk (hardware failure)


> Why do you think the bad block isn't repairable? You can download a
> superlative little standalone utility from IBM's web site that'll
> repair bad blocks on their IDE drives without even erasing the whole
> drive. It's worth a shot.