[PLUG] RH9 complains about bad blocks

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Fri Oct 24 20:38:02 UTC 2003


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On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:35:39PM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:
> I've tried two different hard drives, and both times Disk Druid
> complains that there are bad blocks on the drives. This seems very
> unlikely. /sbin/badblocks doesn't find any errors, so I'm going
> ahead with the installation. Anyone else see this behavior?

I've heard complaints about Disk Druid false-alarming before.  I would
say it's safer to trust /sbin/badblocks.

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