repairing the harddisk

[Shao Zhang <shao@linuxfreak.com>]

Hi,
	I would like to know: if a hard disk died with a couple of bad
	sectors, what is the best way to repair it??

	I use badblocks, mkfs and fsck. Are there any other methods??

	Also, when I mount this dead harddisk, the kernel sometimes will pop
	up some messages like:

	hda: irq request timeout. Error code 0x5f
	hda: ide reset ok.

	There are heaps of them. I cannot remember them all.

	Is this hard disk still usable??
Shao.

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