-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2009-03-31 at 11:38 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
bad block, but my experience is that after you notice the first badblock with smart, its not too much longer before the second, then third, etc...
My second disk developped some badblocks a month or two after I bought it, about the end of 2001. I let it remap them, and... see: nimrodel:~ # smartctl --attributes /dev/hdb 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 070 070 000 Old_age Always - 26407 and: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 By now I don't use it for primary data, only auxiliary space. But it was my main linux disk for years with no problem. So: it depends! :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknSc6kACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UMpQCfWgywmKUED7cH//whUz6iw9g2 /9oAn0nXurcaW11Kn2kQQRhm1EUcNI60 =40c6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org