Ben Russo wrote:
I have an 80GB hard disk. badblocks shows that it has about 78M blocks. The first 50 million or so can be checked (write patterns) for many days with no problems. Beyond that I start to get errors. Does anyone have any experience with creating a partition in the "good" part of the disk and just ignoring the rest?
_I_ wouldn't use it. If it's under waranty, get it replaced.Before this, check with your drive's manufacturer's website. Some have diagnostics you can run. IBM's used to be somewhere under www.ibm.com/harddrive - I expect it would take you to Hitachi now. I think the latest version of IBM's DFT can test other vendors drives too.
IBM's is especially friendly to Linux users as it comes as a floppy disk image which contains PCDOS2000.
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