smartctl reports bad sectors, badblocks does not find any
James McKenzie
jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sat Dec 25 01:48:31 UTC 2010
On 12/23/10 10:34 PM, 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 ?
>
> Suggestions:
> 1. see if BIOS has harddisk self-test (read; read-write)
> 2. check your hd manufacturer's web site for diagnostics/repair utility
> 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
>
I highly recommend NOT trying to fix bad sectors. Just look and see if
the number is increasing as you use the drive. If it does, time to get
another/RMA this drive.
BTW, the OP did not state who the manufacturer of the drive is, but some
manfacturers are known to have drives that ship with recovered bad
sectors that S.M.A.R.T. finds bad after very little use.
James McKenzie
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