On 09-07-04 19:07:18, Scott Beamer wrote: > On 07/04/2009 10:25 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > > Drives typcially won't reallocate bad sectors if they can't get > > good read or the operation is a write. This is to give you a chance > > to recover the data if you want to try. And if you want to spend > > some effort, you can figure out what files, if any, were using > > these blocks. > > Wouldn't checking for bad sectors (finding none) followed by > formatting the drive eliminate this problem? > > That's what I had done and within a few days I started getting > warnings again. Now /that/ indicates a failing drive -- if you used the drive manufacturer's formatting utility, which would completely reformat the drive. Just writing a new filesystem does nothing of the kind. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
