On Saturday 10 November 2007 06:44, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Saturday 10 November 2007 06:04, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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.
Is that the "Reallocated_Event_Count"?
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
Or "Reallocated_Sector_Ct"? 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org