Hard drive errors

[Paul Bryan]

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Hi, I've got a little problem with a 30GB hard drive.

I started getting the odd report about bad sectors so I thought I'd run 
badblocks on it to check it out. Problem is, it reported every single sector 
as being bad.

I'm pretty sure not all of them are bad, but stranger things have happened I 
guess (not that I'm aware of though?).

As far as I can tell, there's two possibilities here. One, is that I'm 
getting inaccurate reports from badblocks. Anyone experienced anything 
similair? Or two, the hard drive controller is cactus.

Does anyone have any thoughts / suggestions on this?

Cheers.

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Paul Bryan
pa_bryan at yahoo.co.uk

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