[ale] possible to use hard drives that have bad blocks ?

[Courtney Thomas]

Makes sense :-)

Thanks,
Courtney


On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 11:40, Jim Lynch wrote:
> As cheap as disks are these days, if this is an internal 3.5" drive, I'd 
> replace it.  If one block is bad, how long before another one goes?
> 
> Jim.
> Courtney Thomas wrote:
> 
> >I've got a couple of HDs that when I:
> >
> >dd if=/dev/hdX of=/dev/null bs=1m
> >
> >I get a single instance of something like:
> >
> >FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 <READY, DSC, ERROR> error=40
> ><UNCORRECTABLE> LBA=19194112 Input/output error
> >
> >My question is: does this signify a single bad block and is there a way
> >to identify this error to some program that can block it's use, so the
> >drive can be used ?
> >
> >Thank you,
> >Courtney
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