From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2012-11-16, TJ  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   But bad block remapping I thought was "basic capability" these days.   
      
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   > TJ   
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