[techtalk] Re: Disk errors in Event Viewer IBM Drives

  • From: Gavin Kinsey <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: techtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 03:58:08 +0100

Bashy <bashy.maillists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> says...
> 
> 1) is there away with PCs to mark bad sectors, as there was with my Amiga?

Modern drives handle this internally, if you get a bad sector now it 
means the drive has used up all it's spares and needs to be replaced 
ASAP.

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(A)bort, (R)etry, (P)retend this never happened... 

Gavin Kinsey - gavin at trollgod dot org dot uk

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