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Keith Abraham wrote: > I did a badblocks check of my Reiser fs and discovered 341 bad blocks > in 7 isolated clumps. Depends if those can be repaired or skipped. How much free space is/was on the drive? How much disk space do you actually need? > I'm guessing, in my ignorance, that this looks to be the result of power > outages. A UPS would be a sensible investment in that case. No point subjecting a replacement drive to the same abuse. £30. > Also I seem to remember reading somewhere that no drive > is entirely free fo bad blocks. Possibly - but not so as you'd notice. With small drives (250Mb), you may have noticed but the only time I come across incremental loss of good blocks is on some solid-state media like CompactFlash. Others here have more recent hardware experience, but AFAICT, hard discs either work or fail completely. > But I suppose I had better scrape my pennies together and > buy another drive. Any recommendations for a good quality drive? Depends how big you need it. You won't get a small drive (<10Gb) new anymore, new 40Gb drives can be as little as £30. http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=2884&GroupID=195 Just don't buy off-the-shelf at a certain out-of-town chain that advertises on TV a lot. ;-) If it's any good, it's over priced with them. If it's cheap there, it's no good. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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