Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
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You can't turn DMA off, you'll get an unusable machine. It can't be a
hardware problem because that doesn't effect one block only, especially
not if it's the same block as has been implicated in other disk
tests... :)
hdparm -d 0 /dev/hda
Just been through similar with an 80 GB Seagate disk, where the electronice seemed to be at fault ( leave it switched off for 48 hours and the shop swear blind there's no problem! ). Linux shunted the affected partition to readonly mode, and any use of the disk when in dma mode shunted it out again, reporting CRC errors. I've also had exactly the same problem with another 80GB seagate at work. Both were about 6 months old. Yours doesn't fit the same description as well, does it?
Following on from other threads that have lately been on about this, I'd get what you can off the disk, reformat and take it back, assuming it's still under warranty. I just can't bring myself to trust any disk that's reporting bad blocks, given the levels of electronics it's gone through to get there.
I'm also a complete convert to smartmontools. I wish I'd come across it years ago!
$0.02
Steve
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