"pcg( Marc)"@goof(A.).(Lehmann )com wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 06:27:08PM +0100, Martin Knoblauch ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > tried to recover a soft-RAID1 built from two "IBM-DTLA-307075 ATA DISK" > > this disk is known to generate bad blocks over time. >
I just found out on google :-( > > The question now is: how do I proceed? First of all, a backup. That is > > the no-brainer. But how do I rebuild the RAID1 and the ReiserFS on it > > without using the bad blocks? > > you should first try to reallocate the bad blocks. most probably there was a > power outage or soemthign else that caused the block to be written only As I said in the original request - a catastrophic one. Only heard the story from our customer, but apparently the stupidity of building contractors can go really high :-((( > partially. just _write_ to the sector and check wether the drive correctly > reallocated it (e.g. using smartctl). > Hmm. Isn't "badblocks -n" supposed to write? In that case persistent errors would indicated "hard" bad blocks. Correct? Thanks Martin -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TeraPort GmbH | Phone: +49-89-510857-309 C+ITS | Fax: +49-89-510857-111 http://www.teraport.de | Mobile: +49-170-4904759
