On Tuesday 21 March 2006 15:34, James Wilkinson wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > Rebooting didn't help. During bootup it reported > > I/O error on device hdb, logical block 0. > > Gordon Messmer wrote: > > Well, that probably means that the drive has a bad sector in a very > > unlucky spot. > > Modern disks will remap bad sectors if they get a chance. > > If a sector goes bad fast enough that the disk doesn't get a chance to > repair it, *then* you'll see a bad sector. But if you attempt to > overwrite it (say by repartitioning and reformatting), then the disk > will map in a known good sector from a list of reserves. > Everything points to sector 0 being nuked. How or why I don't know. > Anne, you say it's out of warrantee. It may not be - I'm querying that at the moment. I think it should go back to the manufacturer if it failed like that without notice. > I wouldn't trust that drive for > important data, but it will *probably* be perfectly well behaved for > temporary stuff and stuff you don't care about. > > Keep an eye on the output of > smartctl -l error /dev/hdb > in any case! > That reports no errors logged. I've ordered a new drive which should be here tomorrow. Anne
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