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Subject: Re: libata: dma, io error messages
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 >If that is so then this suggests the drive has a far
 >more serious problem than just a single bad block, right?

The smartmontools can answer that question far more reliably
than anyone here can.

Cheers
-- 
Mark Lord
(hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy")