I have had my laptop for a year and a half and now the first hard disk
error has appeared. My syslog gives me ``nice'' messages like the
following (repeated):
Aug 22 07:22:51 pan kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete
DataRequest Error }
Aug 22 07:22:51 pan kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x01 { AddrMarkNotFound },
LBAsect=23887713, sector=850440
I have gone through the syslog and the sectors that are reported bad
are the following:
LBAsect=11615376, sector=3679200
LBAsect=11615376, sector=3679203
LBAsect=23236658, sector=199376
LBAsect=23236658, sector=199385
LBAsect=23236670, sector=199397
LBAsect=23887713, sector=850440
LBAsect=23887721, sector=850448
LBAsect=23889817, sector=852544
which appears relatively confined. Using diskdrake it appears that
the first LBA sector is on /dev/hda6 (it listed it's starting sector
as 7,936,173 with /dev/hda7 starting at 18,217,773) and the rest are
on /dev/hda10 (which starts at 23,037,273).
My question now is how do I proceed? Should I backup the data,
reformat the disks and then restore the backup.
Thanks
/Peter
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