Hard drive errors

[James McNeill]

If your heads get damaged, this can be the result. Have you changed any
BIOS/jumper settings recently?

If it turns out to be the controler on the disk, mayhap some kind soul on
the list will have the same model HDD & will borrow you it.

I had the same problem with a 1 GB disk years ago. Not alot you can do if it
is a mechanical failure.

-James


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| Hi, I've got a little problem with a 30GB hard drive.
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| 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.
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| I'm pretty sure not all of them are bad, but stranger things have happened
I
| guess (not that I'm aware of though?).
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| 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.
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| Does anyone have any thoughts / suggestions on this?
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| Cheers.
|
| - --
| Paul Bryan
| pa_bryan at yahoo.co.uk
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| Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn't
| previously aware of.
| Arthur Dent, "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
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