From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] openLuks failing - semaphore weird bug involved ?
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:06:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110915160644.GA5473@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANGzC2y=gmHQ5pxfbeFrnJaC1TkCTpDTEkY_EUbzaJ8+ojSfVw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:54:30AM -0400, Ric Flomag wrote:
> >
> > If the drive has smart you could ask the drive's diagnostics
> > if there's any indication of trouble.
> >
> >
> I am not familiar with SMART. It reports 4 pending sectors and nothing else
> wrong.
That is pretty bad. It means 4 unreadable sectors. Modern HDDs
try pretty had to read damaged sectors ond usually succeed.
>I have run a "badblocks -nvs
> /dev/sdb3<https://one.ubuntu.com/dev/sdb3>",
> it did not find any error... And after this, SMART still reports 4 pending
> sectors.
Meaning the pending sectors are someplae else.
> Any clue about how investigating further ?
badblocks on /dev/sdb.
Arno
> Regards.
>
>
> 2011/9/8 Karl O. Pinc <kop@meme.com>
>
> > On 09/08/2011 10:46:42 AM, Ric Flomag wrote:
> >
> >
> > > What worries me is that I have no clue what happened. A damage to the
> > > header
> > > is it possible without any signs of it ?
> >
> > I've not been paying attention, but have a thought.
> >
> > If the drive has smart you could ask the drive's diagnostics
> > if there's any indication of trouble.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Karl <kop@meme.com>
> > Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
> > -- Robert A. Heinlein
> >
> >
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-15 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-07 18:30 [dm-crypt] openLuks failing - semaphore weird bug involved ? Ric Flomag
2011-09-07 22:31 ` Arno Wagner
2011-09-08 15:46 ` Ric Flomag
2011-09-08 18:11 ` Arno Wagner
2011-09-08 21:53 ` Claudio Moretti
2011-09-08 22:21 ` Karl O. Pinc
2011-09-09 16:19 ` Arno Wagner
[not found] ` <1315506605.6590.0@mofo>
2011-09-15 15:54 ` Ric Flomag
2011-09-15 16:06 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2011-09-15 16:15 ` Ricflomag
2011-09-15 23:07 ` Arno Wagner
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