raid 1 single hard drive?

Hi folks,

I have a hard drive with bad blocks. It's going bad. I'd like to use it to store some log files from my lan.

Could I possibly do a raid 1 on a single hard drive so the data is redundantly copied to multiple partitions on the drive? Will this save me if some partitions develop bad blocks but others don't?

Performance is unimportant. I don't care if the writes are very slow. I'm just trying to do something useful with an old piece of hardware that's going bad.

Oh, I'm running Debian GNU/Linux. Should I use ext2 or ext3 for my partitions.

Some RAID controllers might be able to setup a raid 1 on a single disk, but really, if you just need to store logs, get a $30 20gb drive and use that, and you won't need to worry about the disk failing. The raid 1 might help you if certain blocks go bad, but if the drive is failing then its only a matter of time, and not much time at that, before the whole thing is gone and you'll need a new one anyway.