Fixing a crashed disk

[Dave Ihnat]

Once, long ago--actually, on Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 06:19:59AM CDT--Alan Cox (alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) said:
> Rubbish.

Beg to differ.  Remember, drives have reserved storage to remap bad sectors
*before* you ever see a bad sector at the interface.  So, by the time you
think you're seeing only 8 bad sectors, you've actually burned through
the reserved sectors--many more have failed than you realize.

Look at the SMART report on the drive; that will tell you how many sectors
have been reallocated and how many spare sectors are left in the G-list
(user microcode remapping).

G'luck,
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	Dave Ihnat
	dihnat at dminet.com