On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:36:46 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I did the stupidest thing I could as to forget that I was running on > battery while installing FreeBSD on a free (1st) partition. and I found > the laptop shutting down when it was too late. > > After this event smartctl consistently reports Read Failure starting on > LBA 26203589, Current_Pending_Sector 1, and Offline_Uncorrectable 4. > This block is within partition in question. Thus I know I damaged hdd > within its boundries. > > Simply formating this partition certainly did not help. > > I've run dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 both starting with the reported > LBA and then on the entire partition. And I still have same report from > smartctl > > I run badblocks on the partition firs in non-destructive and then in > destructive (read/write) mode in both cases badblocks reported 0 errors. > But smartctl still gives me the same report. > > In all the cases I run smartctl -t offline /dev/sda1 just to ensure > smartctl updates its data before I run final smartctl -A /dev/sda > > Any suggestions folks? It drives me crazy. I'm fighting it 2 days for > now. Anybody to help? And, yes, I've forgotten to mention - I have a multiboot multidistro system running Fedora 13, Ubuntu 10.04, and openSuse 11.3. FreeBSD was dumped after the incident. Though I think it is not really relevant to the case. -- 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