On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Christopher Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > Possible he has run out of slip sectors for replace ment and the drive
> > media is going bad. Age or a bad thin film. Regardless you should back
> > up and get a new drive.
> >
> > I have never publish how to destroy a drive in that fashion.
> > I have given folks wild and crazy for_loops but I did not let it access
> > those questioned areas.
>
> It is also possible that his memory is bad. He should probably
> run memtest86 before trashing the hard drive. I used to get
> these errors when the top 64 megs of my 128 megs of RAM was
> defective.
Oh......
I also for got to add that you would want to be hearing TWANG-BANG because
it has runout of non-slip sectors.
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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