From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernd Schubert Subject: Re: SMART Self-Test Reports UNC Errors on Dell Latitude D800 Hitachi Travelstar DK23FB Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:32:07 +0200 Sender: Bernd Schubert Message-ID: <200408121932.08943.bernd-schubert@web.de> References: <1092327723.16346.7.camel@turing.optivel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <1092327723.16346.7.camel@turing.optivel.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.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