Am Fre, 2002-09-06 um 17.38 schrieb Alan Cox:
> Get the IBM disk tools, upgrade the firmware and see what the ibm tools
> have to say. IBM drives have had some problems with spontaneous bad
> blocks appearing that go away with new firmware and a run of the disk
> tools.
The "run of the disk tools" that does away with the badblocks is a
lowlevel format; a tedious way to spent ones' time on a harddrive
that will die anyway soon.
> More importantly if thats the problem with the firmware update
> they dont come back until the drive really dies.
Right, which is probably shortly after. Especially on a two years
old drive I wouldn't go through all the troubles to backup 60GB
data, lowlevel format the drive, restore the data and hope the
problems are gone; instead I'd rather get a new drive within the
warranty and cross fingers.
BTW: I did the backup way exactly once and the drive got back to me
with new errors two weeks after.
--
Servus,
Daniel
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