Linux RAID and bad sectors

Oliver Schulze L. oliver at samera.com.py
Wed Aug 9 19:05:01 UTC 2006


Hi Benjamin,
I use ATA100 IDE disks.

I have, 2 maxtor, 1 WD and 1 seagate.
All with no more than 5 bad sectors.

Will search about that zeroing utility, thanks
Oliver

Benjamin Franz wrote:
> What brand and type (IDE, SCSI)? You can usually map out bad sectors using 
> the low level 'zeroing' utility provided by the drive manufacturer. I've 
> done this several times before with both Maxtor and IBM IDE drives. Pretty 
> much all manufacturers have free downloadable utilities for doing it now.
>
>   

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