[plug] Bad Sectors...

[William Kenworthy]

Forget ext2, it sucks almost as bad as fat32 for this type of problem,
go for reiserfs.

I had a disk that started with a few hundred bad sectors (was a seagate
too!, but only 2G) Win98 crashed and reinstalled about 7 days.  After
3rd time put Mandrake with ext2 on it, lasted around a month between
fsck's, but did lose some files at times.  Put Mandrake 8.0 on it with
reiserfs and never had to fsck'd it for ~12 months when I replaced it. 
Dont put swap or anything with a lot of continuous disk access on it
either.

BillK

On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 12:40, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> I have a HDD which on a Win98 PC had bad sectors, and caused various 
> problems. After investigation, I found online that this particular model 
> drive (A 40Gb Seagate) was famous for getting very hot, causing bad sectors.
> 

> Any other ideas?
-- 
William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>