On 24/08/2012 10:48 AM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> It might have bad blocks, and enters a retry loop... with I/O timeout.

No, I think it's just ancient. (The OS still loads, after all...)

> My best erasor: unix "dd bs=32kB if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<drive>  "

Yeah, that's what I'm using. But with a 0.5 KB block size. For some 
reason, each block takes about 10 seconds...

I just tried changing it to 8 KB. Let's see if that makes any difference 
at all...

> If SMART is available on the drive, check it.

The drive is 8.6 GB. How ancient must that thing be? I doubt SMART was 
even invented back then...

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