"One or more disks are failing" ?

Scott Beamer geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com
Sat Jul 4 23:07:18 UTC 2009


On 07/04/2009 10:25 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 
> Drives typcially won't reallocate bad sectors if they can't get a good read
> or the operation is a write. This is to give you a chance to recover the data
> if you want to try. And if you want to spend some effort, you can figure out
> what files, if any, were using these blocks.

Wouldn't checking for bad sectors (finding none) followed by formatting
the drive eliminate this problem?

That's what I had done and within a few days I started getting warnings
again.



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