bad blocks
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Can anybody help me with my harddisk? I had a bad file and I decided to do
a bad block remap with GVP Fastprep The program tells me that there are no
more spare blocks. I have a backup of the harddisk. So I wouldn't mind
reformatting it. But I don't know if a low level format will do the trick.
I have a GVP series II, A200, Quantum 121Mb HD, Syquest 88, fprep 1.98m and
dos 2.04.
Edward,
I don't know how GVP handles it, so can't give you a definate
answer, but normally, yes…on a SCSI drive doing a new low level format
will build a new defect table.
However, I'd be suspicions of any drive that runs out of bad block
remapping capability. Presuming it's the standard SCSI type remapping, not
some custom routine that GVP wrote. The reason I say that is there's an
awful lot of spare blocks saved for bad block mapping…and if they're all
used, you've got an awful lot of bad blocks…as in something wrong is
going on. Either the drive is going south, or the GVP software is
improperly marking blocks that need a retry as bad.
Don