on Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 08:02:17PM -0400, Ben Russo (ben@muppethouse.com) 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? Late add: check to see if your HD is SMART-enabled. Install the smartmontools package and see if the badblocks allowance is within allowed ranges, and/or if the SMART tests pass or fail. Most disks from the past 3-4 years *will* be SMART capable. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of having a computer in your own home. - Ed Yourdon, _Techniques of Program Structure and Design_, 1975
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