> Shlomo,
> If the noises you here are "click-click-click" ones, it's possible that
> there's mismatch between the actual disk geometry and the way Linux sees it.
> Make sure you configured the disk properly in the BIOS and that the values
> fdisk reports are correct ones for your disk. Also, the exact messages you
> see on the console are important. I think that 6-month IBM disk developing
> bad sectors is highly improbable. Also, if you played with hdparm maybe you
> enabled something that either your IDE controller or the disk itself cannot
> handle.
>
> Sorry I don't know how you can check for bad sectors, but I do think that
> your problem is elsewhere.
>
badblocks?
[16:17:28 /tmp]$ zcat /usr/share/man/man8/badblocks.8.gz | groff -t -e -mandoc
-Tascii | col -bx | head -20
BADBLOCKS(8) BADBLOCKS(8)
NAME
badblocks - search a device for bad blocks
SYNOPSIS
badblocks [ -svwnf ] [ -b block-size ] [ -c blocks_at_once
] [ -i input_file ] [ -o output_file ] [ -p num_passes ]
device [ blocks-count ] [ start-block ]
DESCRIPTION
badblocks is used to search for bad blocks on a device
(usually a disk partition). device is the special file
corresponding to the device (e.g /dev/hdc1). blocks-count
is the number of blocks on the device; if it is not speci-
fied, the size of the device is used as a default. start-
[16:17:37 /tmp]$
> Haim.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shlomi Fish
> > Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 8:51 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Checking for bad sectors in a ReiserFS partition
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > It seems one of my ReiserFS partitions got corrupted, and I am able to
> > reproduce a problem where I constantly hear strange noises out of my
> > hard-disk and I get some error messages (from the kernel or something like
> > that) on the virtual consoles.
> >
> > I'd like to check and mark the bad sectors, but I don't know how to do
> > that. The reiserfsck program does not seem to do such a thing, so I'm
> > asking you what does.
> >
> > The funny thing is that it's a 6 monthes old hard-disk from IBM, so it's
> > not likely it will get corrupted so soon.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Shlomi Fish
> >
> >
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