From: "J.L. Coenders" <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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.
Color me paranoid. It'd be a good idea to create that backup, anyway.
It might not be as urgent a problem, though.
{o.o}
