From: TJ@noneofyour.business   
      
   On 11/16/2012 12:04 PM, unruh wrote:   
   > On 2012-11-16, Adam  wrote:   
   >> TJ wrote:   
   >>> On 11/15/2012 07:22 PM, Adam wrote:   
   >>>> I'd say cancel MCC and start again with 'mke2fs' for each partition from   
   >>>> the command line.   
   >>>   
   >>> Around 36 hours now, and still going. Have decided to let it go until   
   >>> tomorrow morning, and if it isn't done then I may just attempt to format   
   >>> it from the command line, without checking for bad blocks again.   
   >>   
   >> If MCC wasn't finished, then the bad block check wasn't finished either.   
   >>    If you're going to do it again from the command line, I /strongly/   
   >> suggest you do the r/w test as part of mke2fs, before you put important   
   >> data on the drive and while it's still easy to return if there are   
   >> problems with it.   
   >   
   > But I thought that most drives these days did a silent bad-block   
   > remapping anyway. Thus you would not see anything on such a test, until   
   > so many bad blocks had swamped the system that the spare blocks were all   
   > used up. Ie, is there really any point at all in his huge waste of time?   
   > ( and if it is on a usb bus, perhaps taking the drive out and putting on   
   > the computer's bus to do the process a bit quiker than many days would   
   > be advantageous).   
   >   
   Not possible with this drive. It's a portable, with the innards   
   non-user-accessible. It's a WD Elements drive, model WDBABV0010BBK-NESN.   
   It's about 5" x 3.5" x 3/4". No mention of anything other than basic   
   capabilities.   
      
   TJ   
      
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