-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > J.L. Coenders wrote: >> Dear list, >> >> I have a problem. >> Smartd reports that I have bad sectors on my disk. I have tried checking it >> with badblocks which also reports bad sectors. >> I believe I have heard it is possible to repair this in a software manner. Is >> this true, or do I need to buy a new disk? >> >> Btw, fsck does not report any problems. >> >> Thanks, >> Jeroen >> > You may want to use hdparm and see if the on-drive defect management > feature is turned on. (-D option) If it is not, turn it on and let > the drive remap the bad sector. If it is already turned on, then you > should start looking for a new drive. If the drive has used up all > the spare sectors, then it is probably failing. > > I have run into a few drives that do not seam to remap some bad > sectors until you run the manufacturer's drive test on them. You can > usualy download this from their web site. You can also download the > Ultimate Boot CD, boot from the CD, and select the correct test for > your drive. (It also has a lot of other nice tools on it.) > > http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ > > Mikkel Thank you for this. I was just running a Ultimate Boot CD test on the drive. The errors do not show up the manufacturers diagnostic tool, Maxtor. The errors started when I migrated from FC2 to FC5 two weeks ago, does that ring a bell to any of you perhaps? I will try the hdparm command. Any other ideas? Thanks, Jeroen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFElYXK1mK/wi107tkRAm/4AJ9ma77+ozHprJqdecHn5hbIAVevWQCgr5ao dWWEwNsivEJFAQtHNR95SzA= =rpaV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
