On 01/06/2012 03:39 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Bas Smeelen wrote: > >> I have had this with a drive and multiple read errors would not remap the >> sector. >> With write errors the sector would be remapped. This was a new Samsung >> laptop drive though, not a Western Digital. > > That's standard. Sectors are only remapped to spares on a write error. > >> To get the sector remapped I had to fully write the drive and it was ok >> after that. > > Just writing to the sector should be enough. Of course, when one sector > goes bad, others often follow.
I just hope it does not develop more bad sectors. >From what I read on the "Bad block HOWTO for smartmontools" on sourceforge it's not trivial to just write to that sector and also it would destroy the filesystem? So I just copied a big iso file several times untill the sector got remapped, the disk was almost full then. This is a brand new disk, maybe I should return it under warranty then, though it did not develop more bad sectors? Disclaimer: http://www.ose.nl/email _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"