Re: Isolating bad cylinders???

That depends!

In the days when 10 Gb drives were big and expensive, I dropped a
nearly new one and it (unsurprisingly) developed a bad patch near the
top end. I subsequently used it without problems as a 8.5 Gb drive for
almost two years before I pensioned it off. If a bad area developed
acutely in a good drive following some form of trauma, I don't think
it is unreasonable to "map it out" and continue to use the drive
(though I wouldn't trust anything vital to it for a couple of months
or so). If it is an older drive and the bad area developed slowly over
time with no obvious provocation, I would agree with (the second part
of) your advice.

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:09:00 +1200, "Sleepless in Seattle"
<jonah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Dumb retard, use your brain and replace the hard drive.


Please respond to the Newsgroup, so that others may benefit from the exchange.
Peter R. Fletcher

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