Re: mke2fs - bad blocks

["Jaakko Niemi" <liiwi@lonesom.pp.fi>]

>> 	I suspect the drive is toast, but thought I would check first.  Does
>> anyone know if  a low level format or something else can save this, or is it
>> just garbage ?
 
 Generally one bad block will come many, sooner or later. It is a defect
 on the surface of the disk.  However modern harddisks have some part
 of their capacity hidden and it is used to map the bad blocks away. 

 If the beginning of the disk has many bad blocks, then you most propably
 are out of luck. 

	--j




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