From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael G. Morey" Subject: SMART Self-Test Reports UNC Errors on Dell Latitude D800 Hitachi Travelstar DK23FB Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:22:03 -0500 Message-ID: <1092327723.16346.7.camel@turing.optivel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-d/2u5zOjFMOso/hIHO+q" Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: To: Reiser Filesystem User List --=-d/2u5zOjFMOso/hIHO+q Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable All, I've installed and run the smartmontools package backported to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 from http://www.backports.org, and have run the short and extended Offline self tests. The results are as follows: smartctl version 5.32 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ =3D=3D=3D START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION =3D=3D=3D SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining=20 LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% =20 4089 8371832 # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% =20 4088 - # 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% =20 0 - My manager suggested that I reformat the partitions (we use ReiserFS 3.6), to mark the bad blocks. Is this a viable option? Can the drive be salvaged, or should it be replaced? Thanks in advance. --=20 Michael G. Morey Optivel --=-d/2u5zOjFMOso/hIHO+q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBG5krUxCoiYM0uf4RAhtGAJ9W319p6pSMSLtOHn1LRelDtyum/ACfVrXm R+NjJmNe6G4ivyerJIgpvV8= =ymns -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-d/2u5zOjFMOso/hIHO+q--