Hard Drives

[ewt]

Attn: Geeks.

If a hard drive works alright in electronic terms but has bad sectors, specifically about 17 of them at the end of the disk, is there a way to fix it? Or are they junk?

These are Seagate Barracuda 19.8GB SCSI drives. There are many of them so it is worth knowing if there is a reliable or even tenuous fix. Otherwise they shall be scrapped for magnets.

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If you have access to a Mac running OS9, you *might* be able to fence off the bad blocks on the drives using Disk Warrior, which tends to pick up on things that Norton does not. If DW doesn't fix them, it's hammer time.

Would these be the type of drives that come in towers, which often used to be used as RAID arrays? Used to get a lot of those as office surplus; not so common now that SCSI drives seem to be becoming obsolescent rather rapidly.