Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: ide drive dying? | From | Daniel Egger <> | Date | 06 Sep 2002 19:33:23 +0200 |
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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.
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