Re: Bad sector on drive ...

2007-02-10 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Saturday, February 10, 2007 01:00:21 -0600 Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Feb 10), Marc G. Fournier said: Short of a reformat, any way of marking the following as bad? :( Feb 10 02:27:20 ganymede kernel: ad4:

Re: Bad sector on drive ...

2007-02-10 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 10 February 2007 09:47, Marc G. Fournier wrote: --On Saturday, February 10, 2007 01:00:21 -0600 Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Feb 10), Marc G. Fournier said: Short of a reformat, any way of marking the following as bad? :( Feb 10 02:27:20 ganymede

Re: Bad sector on drive ...

2007-02-10 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Didn't work, ended up newfs'ng the file system, since the data on the drive is recreatable, and seems to have worked fine ... the error I was getting was when fsck'ng, so suspect that a file got written over top of the bad sector and was causng

Re: Bad sector on drive ...

2007-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
no, not even with a reformat. you MIGHT get something with the manufacturers re-format tools but keep in mind that the way that these tools work is they simply wipe out the grown defects list in the disk drive, then re-test all of the defect areas that had been listed in the grown defect list,

Re: Bad sector on drive ...

2007-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
PROTECTED]; Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 3:17 PM Subject: Re: Bad sector on drive ... -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Didn't work, ended up newfs'ng the file system, since the data on the drive is recreatable, and seems to have worked fine

Re: Bad sector on drive ...

2007-02-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 10), Marc G. Fournier said: Short of a reformat, any way of marking the following as bad? :( Feb 10 02:27:20 ganymede kernel: ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=176887263 Feb 10 02:27:25 ganymede kernel: ad4: TIMEOUT -