> In the bad old days, we used to do low lever format of a disk using a dos asm command and hand enter a set of instructions. > > I do not recall what those instructions were, and I am not certain they would work on a 500GB drive. > > Now that all I have is linux, and my HD has developed many bad blocks, > I need to back it up and do low level formatting. So, I need a Linux based > low level formatting tool. I suspect you need a new disk. What does the smart data for the drive say ? Writing zeroes over the whole drive should reallocate any dud sectors. You can also rewrite specific sector numbers with hdparm --write-sector However a drive generating a lot of bad blocks often means the drive is ill and likely to fail again. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
