> From: randall [mailto:rand...@songshu.org] > Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 9:15 AM > Subject: Re: smart > > Adrian Levi wrote: > > > > Your disc has been steadily failing for the last ~1800 hours. > > Buy a replacement and swap it out asap. > > > > Adrian > > > > > Already had a spare lying around so i took the advice, the new disk is > actually syncing with the array at this moment. > http://www.songshu.org/index.php/replacing-a-failing-disk
Randall, I have had drives that had bad sectors like yours. My suggestion would be to format the drive ext3 with the badblocks option. `man mkfs.ext3` You are going to want to read up on the -c option. I usually use the -cc option when formatting the drive. If all goes well, physically mark the drive so you know it has had issues then use it as a secondary/tertiary backup. I have a 500GB hard drive that has had problems for a while. It only gives me like 380GB to use after a format. I wouldn't trust that drive with my primary data period. However, if I am going on a road trip or something I will toss a few recordings off of MythTV onto it, toss it into an external drive enclosure, and I am good to go. Who cares if I lose it, drop it, or otherwise cause it to fail? What I am saying is, the badblocks option (mkfs.ext3 -cc) should find the bad spots and allocate around them. Don't trust the drive, but you might still be able to put it to use. Have fun! ~Stack~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
