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From: Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@web.de>
To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: SMART Self-Test Reports UNC Errors on Dell Latitude D800 Hitachi Travelstar DK23FB
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:32:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408121932.08943.bernd-schubert@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1092327723.16346.7.camel@turing.optivel.com>


> 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?
>

Whats your definition of 'reformating'? Its certainly not 
'mkreiserfs /dev/my_partition'. You would need a tool for a low level format 
of the disk, I don't know if there are any for IDE disks.

Smartctl should also return the 'reallocated sector count' values, if those 
are only a few ones, it might be worth a try to run 'badblocks 
-n /dev/my_device', I think most drives only reallocate sectors when data are 
written to them. After this has finished, try the badblocks and smartctl 
command again, if there are still any errors, I would just get a new drive.

Somewhere on the namesys site you will also find an article about badblocks 
handling with reiserfs, but I would do this only in absolut emergency if I 
would need to rescue my data.


Cheers,
	Bernd

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-12 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-12 16:22 SMART Self-Test Reports UNC Errors on Dell Latitude D800 Hitachi Travelstar DK23FB Michael G. Morey
2004-08-12 17:32 ` Bernd Schubert [this message]
2004-08-12 17:48   ` Michael G. Morey
2004-08-12 18:28     ` Bernd Schubert
2004-08-12 20:18   ` Lamont R. Peterson
2004-08-13  0:12     ` Philippe Gramoullé
2004-08-13  0:18       ` Lamont R. Peterson
2004-08-13  2:12         ` Philippe Gramoullé

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