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The Friday 2007-06-22 at 16:52 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:

> Also, SATA drives do not reallocate on read only on write.

Same as PATA. It is done by the disk hardware, no cpu intervention.


> Since the OP has the sector #, he should use dd to read in the sector
> from the good drive to a temp file.  Then use dd to write it back out
> to the failed drive.  In theory the bad drive will see that someone is
> writing to a bad sector and re-map it to one of the spare sectors.

That's not possible; it seems you haven't read previous posts:

| Jun 19 03:16:57 axis kernel: sdb: Current: sense key: Medium Error
| Jun 19 03:16:57 axis kernel:     Additional sense: Unrecovered readerror - 
auto reallocate failed
| Jun 19 03:16:57 axis kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector25690407

Remapping has already failed.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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