Hard Drives
Aug. 22nd, 2007 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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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.
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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Date: 2007-08-22 09:12 pm (UTC)Usually a SCSI drive will detect a bad sector on its own and will remap that sector to another (spare) place on the drive. This is completely translucent to the user, so unless you run out of spare sectors you should never notice a bad sector on the drive.
Given the above and that all of them seem to be at the end of the disk I suspect that there is something else wrong with the disks (or with their formatting)