Anychance you can help me down this path a little more? What is it I am suppose to do? I found this: http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl8_hdparm.htm The best thing I see is "-D Enable/disable the on-drive defect management feature" Coudl you elaborate on what I should do? Thank you. -Cody On Friday 30 January 2004 05:46, Carlos E. R. wrote:

The Friday 2004-01-30 at 04:11 -0700, c_nelson77 wrote:

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Any help here? I know ext2/3, fat, fat32, hpfs, ntfs, all have ways to deal with this, but I have yet to find anyone in linux w/ reiserfs.

That's right, reiserfs can not handle badblocks. ext273 can. There is a way to do it manually, but I don't like it (fsck will remove the hack).

However, possibly your HD firmware can move badbloks elsewere, transparent to any OS. This is enabled with hdparm, and the log/status can be seen with smartctl. Relocation of bad sectors happens when trying to write to a bad sector (but not on reading).

-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson