[Novalug] Hardqare (?) Question : Wipe Geekstick?

Joseph Brinkley brinkley.joseph@gmail.com
Tue Dec 16 14:33:50 EST 2008


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On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 12:32 -0600, Beartooth wrote:
> >       That may well be the best for Dan or David or both, but
> > it's still irrelevant to me -- the sticks I want to re-use refuse
> > to let me add LinuxMint (all of which fits on a CD), saying
> > they're too full. I have to wipe something, and might as well
> > wipe all while I'm at it.
>
> Wait...are you saying there no files on them, but they claim to have
> some large amount of data in use?  If so, they're dead.  I've had drives
> like that, and formatting doesn't fix it.  GParted claimed there was a
> bunch of data still.  I was told that it probably reached the
> max-read/write cycles, and that if one spot goes bad from that on the
> drive, it's like a matrix...that whole row and column goes.
>
> Like this...
> o o o o o o o o o o
> o o o o o o o o o o
> o o o o o o o o o o
> o o o o o o o o o o
> o o o o o o o o o o
> o o o o o o o o o o
> o o o o o o o o o o
> o o o o o o o o o o
> o o o o o o o o o o
> o o o o o o o o o o
>
> if the 3rd across and 5th down goes bad, it knocks out all of this:
>
> o o X o o o o o o o
> o o X o o o o o o o
> o o X o o o o o o o
> o o X o o o o o o o
> X X X X X X X X X X
> o o X o o o o o o o
> o o X o o o o o o o
> o o X o o o o o o o
> o o X o o o o o o o
> o o X o o o o o o o
>
> Which means each one that goes bad takes a boatload with it.  If just a
> few go bad, a large chunk is done for.
>
> I don't know if he's right about that being the way they work, but
> nothing I tried would fix them.
>
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> Mackenzie Morgan
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