Re: seek troubles -> bus resets -> can't do a badblocks check

Owen Williams <ywwg@usa.net> writes:

> Basically I think the badblocks program should work, but for some reason
> firewire isn't dealing with the errors nicely and is giving up on the
> drive. How can I fix this parition?

As it seems I had exactly the same problem. fsck with badblocks
failed every time I tried it. Then I reformated the whole disk with
badblock check and the problem went away. The harddisk in question
was also and maxtor (dv5000).

daniel

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