Hi Debianeers, Today I moved some scsi partitions around and now fdisk, cfdisk and sfdisk complain that sector 3,672,497 cannot be read, and they won't allow access to that drive.
My linux root partition is on the affected drive, but so far linux is running along quite well (and I've rebooted numerous times), but I was only half finished with partition relocations, so this configuration is kind of a frankenstein (mismatched partition sizes), but hey, it works. Verifying the disk media with the scsi controller did not yield any results at boot time, nor did reseating all the cables and cards. The good news is that I have a backup, albeit not super convenient (it's on a second hard drive in logical partitions, iow: not bootable). What should I do about a bad sector? The drive is only about 9 months old (ibm DCAS-34330-UW), and it's a 4.3 GB. Is this repairable? Would low-level formatting fix things, or should I be thinking about a new drive? Any ideas appreciated, David Stern fwiw: NT crashes with the INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE "blue screen of death". (I was just trying to see if I could run some adaptec diagnostic utilities.)
