On Saturday 10 November 2007 06:04, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Friday 2007-11-09 at 16:09 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > Once I had the list of (supposedly) bad blocks, I simply used an > > 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. > > I believe you may have simply triggered remapping of those bad > sectors. You can discover if that's so because in smartctl output one > of the lines counts them.
Is that the "Reallocated_Event_Count"? 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 If so, and if I'm reading that correctly, then these sectors were not remapped. > ... > Cheers, > Carlos E. R. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
