On Tuesday 17 August 2010 01:05 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: >> I have contacted Western Digital, but I am yet to hear from them. In the >> > mean time I want to minimize what ever problems I have since I have to >> > run my machine with this drive until they confirm my RMA. >> > >> > I came across this page on the smartmontools sourceforge page, >> > >> > http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html >> > >> > Does any one think its worth a try to attempt this? >> > >> > Thanks for any suggestions. > It's probably worthwhile to try to identify the affected files and thus > get some idea of how much time you'd spend trying to correct your 70+ > remaining bad sectors that way. Hopefully you won't have any bad sectors > that can only be located by running "smartctl -t long ..." (runs for ~1 > hour, finds the first error, you fix that, then repeat) or by reading > through the entire drive (takes ~3 hours for a 1TB drive -- use dd with > "conv=noerror" so that you won't have to repeat that). Thanks Robert for the suggestions. PS: I heard back from WD today. They have recommended me to RMA. :) -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
