So badblocks works on an IDE drive? The manpage says:
BUGS
I had no chance to make reals tests of this program since
I use IDE drives which remap bad blocks. I only made some
tests on floppies.
-chris
"S.Salman Ahmed" <ssahmed@pathcom.com> writes:
> - disable DMA mode on that HD (using hdparm)
> - running badblocks on the partition that I suspected of having bad
> sectors
> - feeding the output of badblocks to e2fsck which I ran after badblocks