Subject: Re: bad sectors on drives ... To: None <> From: James
Sharp <> List: netbsd-users Date: 12/13/2001 02:29:02 >This
doesn't appear to be an old drive ... how many bad sectors do
>people usually tolerate before ditching the drive?  Zero.  If
the drive is detecting bad sectors, then it has developed more
bad sectors since its factory scan and will probably develop
more as time goes on.  If its a SCSI drive, you might be able to
pull all the data you can off and initiate a low-level format of
the drive with the scsictl command. That will tell the drive to
lay down new sector markings and do another bad block scan.