On Thursday 02 January 2003 19:26, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: > Hello list, > > I've got the following problem which I hope someone could help me with: > One of my boxes running FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE has an IBM DTLA-307030 (30GB) > which worked very well for more than 2 years now, but I think it starts > rotting away according the following: > <skipped> > As can be seen, the data in that affected area is virtually lost, but > luckily not very important. So my question is, what can I do to get > the disk fully operational again? Some time ago I read that writing > binary zeroes there could be used as some kind of low-level-format to get > rid of the bad sectors. If this would be of any use, how would I accomplish > to dd /dev/zero to just that specific part of the disk, leaving the rest > intact? Is that possible at all? Or are there any other ways to solve that > problem, apart from buying a new disk or low-level-formating the whole > thing?
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