[Gllug] badblocks

[Vincent AE Scott]

Chris Bell(chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk)@Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 01:00:19PM +0100:
> On Wed 14 Nov, Vincent AE Scott wrote:
> 
> > 
> > hmmm, i'm reaching a similar conclusion, but i dont want to blame the
> > s/w when it might just be a bad IBM disk.  the last time reiser fscked
> > up, i had one file that could not be deleted of the FS, and during
> > kernel boot failure to rm the file caused a panic.   that i blame on
> > reiserfs.
> 
>    I had a series of problems while using a new IBM disc, and repeated
> re-formatting showed no errors. IBM publish a check programme for their
> discs which requested permission to correct errors and lose data, found the
> problem immediately, marked the error(s), and declared the remainder OK.
> 

If it's the same one im thinking of, you have to format the drive to use
it.  kind of what i was hoping to avoid having to resort to.


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