On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 09:35:03AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
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> kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:27:59AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > > I received a new Dell computer last week, and after a backup of
> > > my system tar reported problems with one file. While trying to
> > > read that file, I get I/O errors:
> > >
> > > hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> > > hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10360592,
> > sector=4464737
> > > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02 (hda), sector 4464737
> > >
> > > Bad disk?
> > > Should I contact Dell or test-torture it some more?
> >
> > ...did you run badblocks on it?
>
> Just did, thanks. I got the number of blocks on the partition
> from fdisk like so:
>
> # fdisk -l /dev/hda | grep hda2
> /dev/hda2 368 877 4096575 83 Linux
> # badblocks /dev/hda2 4096575
> 2232368
> 2232369<...> > If I understand correctly, I should reboot using a rescue boot > disk (since this is on my root partition) and run: > > # e2fsck -c /dev/hda2 > > -c This option causes e2fsck to run the badblocks(8) > program to find any blocks which are bad on the > filesystem, and then marks them as bad by adding > them to the bad block inode. > Right? Not sure as I've never had to deal with a disk with bad blocks on it. > It's bad that a brand new disk has bad blocks on it, isn't it? Yes. I'd return it for an exchange to the vendor. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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