Subject: Re: Preparing for linux / Scandisk question
From: Jim Gribbin (jewelrysupplier@gci.net)
Date: Sat Dec 21 2002 - 15:23:07 AKST
If you go to the drive manufacturers website, they often have utilities
which will allow you to do an 'almost' low-level format and will often
map out bad blocks.
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 22:53, Grant Stockly wrote:
> I want to prepare a laptop hard drive for linux, but it has a clump of bad
> clusters towards the end. Sometimes these bad clusters are just "slow" and
> it takes a real long time to read from them. Windows Scandisk might not
> think that 10 seconds to read 50k is a long time, but I do. Are there any
> programs out there where you can set the threshold for bad sector detection?
>
> I'd like to fix these problems and get on with it.
>
> Grant
>
>
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