On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:33:53 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I'm pretty sure he is saying that if you are willing to accept that the data is lost, but you want to put the sectors back in service you can overwrite them with zeros.
Ah, that makes sense, yes. So far only 72 bad blocks, so the data's not completely gone. I'm probably going to try to get ahold of a drive to use to back the data up (one of the problems with drives this size is the difficulty in backing them up).
In deed that should work. The drive itself should have kept track of all the sectors that failed to read. When you write to those sectors, the drive itself should remap the logical sectors to good sectors from a spare supply that it has.
Yeah, one of the suspicions is that SMART is disabled for some reason; I am going to let the badblocks run finish, then pull the drives out of the case and hook them up to an IDE interface directly to try and see if that's the case.
Also, the most recent versions of hdparm have new options related to working with sectors. I don't remember exactly what it can do. The version with 10.3 is not new enough. You need something from the last few months. (8.3 or newer I think?)
You can get the source from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=136732
Thanks, I'll have a look at that as well. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org