Disk error??

[L]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:30 AM, L <yuanlux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:02:41 +1100,
>>  L <yuanlux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> The hard disk on a laptop shows failing error "Disk had many bad
>>> sectors' it suggests 'backup data and replace disk. Of course, this
>>> test information was generated by Palimpsest Disk Utility on F12.
>>> However, when I used self-test utility from BIOS (HP 6710), it passed
>>> all tests.
>>>
>>>
>>> Which result is reliable, one from Palimpsest Dish Utility or BIOS
>>> self-test utiltity?
>>>
>>> if this disk is failing, how can I check what section or partition
>>> where errors reside?
>>
>> You probably want to use smartmontools to get a more detailed status of
>> the drive. If there are sectors that need to be reallocated, you can
>> find them one at a time using the long self test. The hard part is figuring
>> out what file the block is in. If you are running raid 1, you can copy
>> over the block from the other drive. Otherwise things depend on the file
>> systems and block devices involved.
>>
>
> Thanks, I looked at a tutorial at
>
> http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html
>
> question is related to this statement
>
> In this example, the disk is failing self-tests at Logical Block
> Address LBA = 0x016561e9 = 23421417. The LBA counts sectors in units
> of 512 bytes, and starts at zero.
>
> How to convert LBA = 0x016561e9 to 23421417?
>
>
>

I got a hint as perl command

 printf "%d\\n\\n", 0x016561e9;



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