<br><br><div class="im">On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Jon Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonl711@hotmail.com" target="_blank">jonl711@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr"><div><br><div>It's a Seagate ST318406LW 18GB SCSI
drive and Seagate does not have any tools that run from Linux only on
Windows. I'm hoping I can find a utility that can check the drive in
Linux or from a boot CD and mark the bad blocks.</div>
</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>You don't need any special
Seagate tools if it has SMART. Ubuntu live CD and "disk utility" runs
the palimpsest program mentioned above.<br><br>Modern drives will flag
the bad blocks. If it is just a few, you can fix it by deleting or
overwriting the files that are getting errors on reading. e.g. from
backup.<br>
The drive will attempt to write over the block and verify it. If the
verify fails, it will automatically mark the block as bad, and use a
spare. (Do I understand correctly folks?)<br><br>Yours is a rather old SCSI disk, but I'd guess it does the same. <br>
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