-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-11-09 at 16:09 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Once I had the list of (supposedly) bad blocks, I simply used an invocation of "dd" (the stock dd, not dd_rescue) to copy zero bytes (supplied by /dev/zero, of course) over the failing sectors.
Voila! After this, the bad sectors could be read without eliciting any error indication at all, requiring no retries nor producing any kernel messages.
I believe you may have simply triggered remapping of those bad sectors. You can discover if that's so because in smartctl output one of the lines counts them.
The moral: Don't give up easily if you have a young, expensive drive that starts to give you SMART errors!
Obviously :-) A percent of bad sectors are to be expected. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHNbqGtTMYHG2NR9URAidDAJ9LXR6Jx+ka4kxA2ShJ/DEaHtZjiQCfdl2m Iqcg0pxbMrQ9wGKGizl0fa8= =xtXK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org