file removal problem

[R Kimber]

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:34:55 -0400
ubuntu at rio.vg wrote:

> It's been my experience that if you're down to dealing with badblocks,
> your disk is sinking and it's time to abandon ship and check the
> warranty.  It might be possible to recover from it, but I certainly
> wouldn't ever trust the bugger with my data again...

Thanks.  At the moment I'm backing everything up (of course I already
have backups of the really important stuff) and when that's done I'll
play around with it and see if it's still usable - it's possible that
it's a cable issue, or a reformat might work.

- Richard
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/