Re: [newbies] bad blocks

[Andrew Jorgensen]

If your drive is still under warranty (you can find out at the manufacturers website) you really should download their test utilities and run them. They are usually a boot floppy. When you get the error code from their utilities use that code to request an RMA and get your drive replaced.

Justin Findlay wrote:

/sbin/fdisk /dev/hda

gives me:

Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14589 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 396 3076447+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 397 4314 31471335 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 4315 14589 82533937+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 4315 14589 82533906 83 Linux

And then I do:

/sbin/badblocks /dev/hda3

which reports these blocks:

31471332
31471333
31471334

Seeing that they are the three last blocks of /dev/hda3 makes the badness
of these blocks seem suggestive or dubious.  What think the enlightened
ones and bad block experts?

Justin

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