On Thu, 13 May 1999, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> > > On Thu, 13 May 1999, Dave Schmitt wrote:
> > > 
> > 
> > That's what I was afraid of. We had a major power outage or 2 last
> > weekend... I found something called "badsect" which might help me in /sbin,
> > but I'm leery to use it until I understand better just what's going on.
> 
> If you're really getting a lot, get a new disk. Drives tend to go down
> hill fast once they start.
> 

In principle, I agree, but if this is just a hobby machine, maybe not. It
depends on why the errors occurred. I've used several small 'bad' drives
dug out of the trash for years with few problems. A low level format may
be in order, however.

jf