OK, I have a problem where two hard drives (Samsung ST320005454AS) are showing "Damaged" with bad sectors. I ran the repair, I recovered the files, but how do I remove the "Damaged" status? It appears DrivePool is taking this into consideration and moving all my files over to the drives it thinks are not damaged. Since these were found on the first run of Scanner, I think probably the worst is over, and I can put the drives back in the pool and let DrivePool balance them. But, I can't figure out how.
Oh, and something that crossed my mind, I think it would be a good addition to allow us to delete the bad files. In my case they were surveillance camera images that I really did not care about. What I would have liked to do is to delete the files and mark the sectors as bad.
I'm going to date myself here, but back in the old DOS days when we used MFM hard drives, I used SpinRite (yes, I know they are still around) to scan my drives and mark bad sectors. That's pretty much all I want to do.
Oh, and back then if you bought a 1:1 interleave controller, you could low level format the drive with SpinRite with data in place (no data loss) to take advantage of it. Not relevant, but had to share in case someone else is as old as me.
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OK, I have a problem where two hard drives (Samsung ST320005454AS) are showing "Damaged" with bad sectors. I ran the repair, I recovered the files, but how do I remove the "Damaged" status? It appears DrivePool is taking this into consideration and moving all my files over to the drives it thinks are not damaged. Since these were found on the first run of Scanner, I think probably the worst is over, and I can put the drives back in the pool and let DrivePool balance them. But, I can't figure out how.
Oh, and something that crossed my mind, I think it would be a good addition to allow us to delete the bad files. In my case they were surveillance camera images that I really did not care about. What I would have liked to do is to delete the files and mark the sectors as bad.
I'm going to date myself here, but back in the old DOS days when we used MFM hard drives, I used SpinRite (yes, I know they are still around) to scan my drives and mark bad sectors. That's pretty much all I want to do.
Oh, and back then if you bought a 1:1 interleave controller, you could low level format the drive with SpinRite with data in place (no data loss) to take advantage of it. Not relevant, but had to share in case someone else is as old as me.
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