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Re: [opensuse] i/o error woes
- From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:39:03 -0700
- Message-id: <200704122139.03230.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
On Thursday 12 April 2007 21:10, dwain wrote:
> I have a 40gb drive that I obtained that has some i/o errors on it.
> Is there a way to fix this so I can load opensuse on it? Would it be
> worth the effort?
By "I/O errors" do you mean bad sectors? It might be possible to get the
device to map them out.
But what is the cash value of a 40 GB drive even if it was in perfect
working order? $25US? How long do you have to work to earn that? That's
how much effort it would worth to try to make that device useable, if
that's even possible.
> Dwain
RRS
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> I have a 40gb drive that I obtained that has some i/o errors on it.
> Is there a way to fix this so I can load opensuse on it? Would it be
> worth the effort?
By "I/O errors" do you mean bad sectors? It might be possible to get the
device to map them out.
But what is the cash value of a 40 GB drive even if it was in perfect
working order? $25US? How long do you have to work to earn that? That's
how much effort it would worth to try to make that device useable, if
that's even possible.
> Dwain
RRS
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