On Saturday 10 November 2007 06:44, Randall R Schulz wrote: > 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
Or "Reallocated_Sector_Ct"? 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
