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["Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

All,

Having an issue I thought I knew how to address, but it is not
working.  OpenSUSE 10.2 is booting into a maintenance mode due to a
bad sector read on the hard disk.  I'm not worried about the data on
the drive and so far it is just one bad sector.

So I would like to cause the drive to map the sector to one of its
spares, then do a fsck on the partiion, then some kind of installation
verification step, or if truly necessary I can reinstall.

I'm stuck on the first step.  I thought writing data to the sector
would cause the drive to remap it, but that is not happening.

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null skip=312518818 count=1

Is very slow to return and triggers the bad sector error messages.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda skip=312518818 count=1

returns very fast and and reports success, but redoing the above read
again still returns errors.

Is there a different way to get that sector remapped?

Thanks
Greg
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The Norcross Group
The Intersection of Evidence & Technology
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