-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 * Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-09-07 19:12]: > invocation of "dd" (the stock dd, not dd_rescue) to copy zero bytes > (supplied by /dev/zero, of course) over the failing sectors. > > Voila! After this, the bad sectors could be read without eliciting any > error indication at all, requiring no retries nor producing any kernel > messages. > > > The moral: Don't give up easily if you have a young, expensive drive > that starts to give you SMART errors! > > > An interesting aside: The actual capacity of this drive appears to be > nearly 7 GB (out of just under 140 GB) _larger_ than specified.
only possible problem, part of those *may* have been deliberately scrambled/disabled by the mfgr because they did not meet some standard and were expected to fail untimely (too soooon). - -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn4472 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFHNPicClSjbQz1U5oRAjDNAJ4/3HzQ6vpljp2Ky1SDeCVjk5wnLQCWM5XF Pp4LIUDu6jIZZDC7xG3MiA== =fdCf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
