Bad sector
Justin Piszcz
jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com
Mon Jun 19 20:25:09 UTC 2006
I had a bad sector and used the methods below, 2 days later the drive
croaked! RMA'd it today. Bad sector? RMA it!
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 16:07:10 -0400,
> Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
>>
>> One needs backups to recover from disk failures, even just uncorrectable
>> bad sectors. There must be some tool to map a bad blocks list to the
>> affected files, but I don't know what it is.
>
> There is some information on this at:
> http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/BadBlockHowTo.txt
>
> Also, if you are using software raid 1, you can copy the data for the problem
> sectors from the other disk.
>
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