Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: ide drive dying? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 06 Sep 2002 21:31:25 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 18:33, Daniel Egger wrote: > 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.
For the IBM's it depends what the problem is. Spontaneous bad blocks appearing during power off appears to be fixed by the firmware update - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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