On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 12:52, Jack Howarth wrote: > I noticed the following error from the promise-sata > driver when attempting to write from a drive which I believe > has bad blocks. This is the correct interpretation of this > error message, correct? > > Current sda: sense key Medium Error > Additional sense: Unrecovered read error- > auto reallocate failed > > The Western Digital Model: WDC WD1200JD-00F Rev: 02.0 > drive is being tested with their drive utility now > for a RMA. > What is the conventional wisdom about drive > recovery in such a situation? If the WD utility > claims to have spared out the bad blocks would the > drive be acceptable to use? My experience in recovering > ide drives in such a manner hasn't been good. They > eventually go south again. > Jack Newer drive automatically replace bad sectors with spares that are included on the drive. If you are seeing bad sectors this means one of two issues. 1) A virus (not likely) 2) Drive failure. If the drive is failing get your data off now (only allow the drive to run - spin up - while removing data). -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
