On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 18:48:31 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > On 12/23/10 10:34 PM, JB wrote: >> Juan R. de Silva<juan.r.d.silva<at> gmail.com> writes: >> >>> ... >> Do you see the same SMART errors under your other distros ? >> >> Suggestions: >> 1. see if BIOS has harddisk self-test (read; read-write) 2. check your >> hd manufacturer's web site for diagnostics/repair utility 3. $ man >> hdparm >> # hdparm -I /dev/sd? >> study it (I have not tried it myself ...) VERY DANGEROUS according >> to manual ! --make-bad-sector >> --read-sector >> --repair-sector >> --write-sector >> > I highly recommend NOT trying to fix bad sectors. Just look and see if > the number is increasing as you use the drive. If it does, time to get > another/RMA this drive. I guess I've done enough in this regard already :-). The only thing I'm still hesitating to try (but considering) is hdparm. At the end if the drive is destined to die, I at least have a good opportunity to exercise on it. :-) > BTW, the OP did not state who the manufacturer of the drive is, It's FUJITSU MHV2100BH on Dell Latitude d820. And it's 4.5 years old. > but some > manfacturers are known to have drives that ship with recovered bad > sectors that S.M.A.R.T. finds bad after very little use. Unfortunately my logs show the first report of Nov. 23 this year. Well, I guess there is not much I can do but making full backups frequently. -- 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
