On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Robert Rati wrote: > How does Linux handle bad clusters or can linux not use a hard drive with > bad clusters? How do you get a report of the bad clusters? I was It should detect them automatically during formatting of the drive. However, a modern IDE or SCSI HD should never show bad clusters to the software. If your drive is not handling bad clusters automatically, then it's probably dying; get ready to replace it anyway.