On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 15:05:01 -0400, "Oliver Schulze L." <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Benjamin, > I use ATA100 IDE disks. > > I have, 2 maxtor, 1 WD and 1 seagate. > All with no more than 5 bad sectors. > > Will search about that zeroing utility, thanks If you are using RAID 1, you probably want to try copying sectors from one disk to another. This will probably be a lot faster than rebuilding a whole disk, and can also be used if you have bad sectors on both disks.