[TriLUG] controller causing read errors?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Jim wrote:

> On 01/25/2011 10:41 AM, Ron Kelley wrote:
>> Or, bad SATA cables.  Try replacing them and see what happens...
> If it is a cable or something, might the drive be unharmed?  I mean, if I 
> leave this machine on today, will it damage the drive permanently? Thanks!

some errors, (possibly unallocated disk errors, not exactly 
sure)  are unrecoverable. The disk marks them as bad and you 
can't reverse this. I had 100,000 disk errors in about an 
hour when a power supply went flakey. The disk is fine, but 
those blocks are permanently marked bad.

Joe


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