smartctl reports bad sectors, badblocks does not find any

[Juan R. de Silva]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 05:34:33 +0000, JB wrote:

> Juan R. de Silva <juan.r.d.silva <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> ...
> 
> Do you see the same SMART errors under your other distros ?

Yes, the same errors under all of them. I've tried it under 
systemrescuecd 
- same results.
 
> Suggestions:
> 1. see if BIOS has harddisk self-test (read; read-write) 

No, it does not have it.

> 2. check your
> hd manufacturer's web site for diagnostics/repair utility 

There is only DOS and only diagnostic utility. I've not tried it yet, 
since it does not have any repair option anyway.

> 3. $ man
> hdparm
>    # hdparm -I /dev/sd?
>    study it (I have not tried it myself ...) VERY DANGEROUS  according
>    to manual ! --make-bad-sector
>    --read-sector
>    --repair-sector
>    --write-sector

That is a very good suggestion. I've totally forgotten about hdparm. This 
is the only thing I've not tried yet. I'll try it the next few days, 
since I get busy with other things right now.

Thank you.