[vox-tech] working around bad blocks?

[Steven Peck]

Depends on the brand.

Western Digital has a utility to test their hard drives, it will try and
correct up to 10 errors by remapping blocks, etc.  If it fails it gives =
you
an error code which you tell the Western Digital technician on the phone =
when
you are requesting a warantee return.  Warentee returns take a week if =
you
don't cross ship.

Many hard drives have a 5 year warrantee now, so I would go to the =
venders
website and see if they have a utility to test your drive.

-sp

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From: Ryan [mailto:ryan+lugod@cal.net]=20
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 9:57 AM
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Subject: [vox-tech] working around bad blocks?


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I have three 40 GB hard drives that I wish to use RIAD 5 on.

the first hard drives has 12 bad blocks on it (i also have the sector =
numbers

How the heck do I work around the bad blocks to set up RAID?

I could partition around it, but then one of my partitions would be =
smaller=20
then I want by about 10 GB.

anyone have any other ideas?