RE: how to find bad blocks

2010-02-15 Thread Vadkan Jozsef
pastebin.com/f5a5c595a i just started badblocks -w -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1266236447.26031.8.ca...@ubuntu

Re: how to find bad blocks

2010-02-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > We have a samsung hdd, that keeps falling out of raid, but there are no > bad blocks on it, according to "badblocks" prog. > > we would like to return it [warranty], but it would be better to find > e.g. bad blocks on it..:\ :D

RE: how to find bad blocks

2010-02-10 Thread Hadi Motamedi
> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:39:35 -0600 > From: s...@hardwarefreak.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: how to find bad blocks > > Vadkan Jozsef put forth on 2/9/2010 11:44 AM: > > Besides the badblocks app? > > > > We have a samsung hdd,

Re: how to find bad blocks

2010-02-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Vadkan Jozsef put forth on 2/9/2010 11:44 AM: > Besides the badblocks app? > > We have a samsung hdd, that keeps falling out of raid, but there are no > bad blocks on it, according to "badblocks" prog. This is probably because there are no bad blocks on it. > we would like to return it [warranty

RE: how to find bad blocks

2010-02-09 Thread James Zuelow
I think the OP just needs enough data to convince Samsung that the drive is bad so he can RMA it. If the drive is at fault the SMART data should do it (especially since the first thing Samsung will do when they get the drive is query the SMART data...) Since the drive is part of a RAID array I

Re: how to find bad blocks

2010-02-09 Thread CamaleĆ³n
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:44:02 +0100, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > Besides the badblocks app? > > We have a samsung hdd, that keeps falling out of raid, but there are no > bad blocks on it, according to "badblocks" prog. > > we would like to return it [warranty], but it would be better to find > e.g. ba

Re: how to find bad blocks

2010-02-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * James Zuelow [Tue, Feb 09 2010, 08:58:15AM]: > Can you get SMART data from it? > > I don't think you can list the bad blocks that the drive is re-mapping, but > you can certainly get the number of times the drive has had to do that. > > The manpage for smartctl describes how to quer

Re: how to find bad blocks

2010-02-09 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hi, On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:44:02 +0100 Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > We have a samsung hdd, that keeps falling out of raid, but there are no > bad blocks on it, according to "badblocks" prog. Did you use the write scan? (parameter -w for destructive write, -n for non-destructive write -- both cannot

Re: how to find bad blocks

2010-02-09 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-09 12:44:02, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > Besides the badblocks app? > > We have a samsung hdd, that keeps falling out of raid, but there are > no bad blocks on it, according to "badblocks" prog. > > we would like to return it [warranty], but it would be better to find > e.g. bad blocks on it.

RE: how to find bad blocks

2010-02-09 Thread James Zuelow
> -Original Message- > From: Vadkan Jozsef [mailto:jozsi.avad...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 09 February, 2010 08:44 > To: Debian User Mailing list > Subject: how to find bad blocks > > Besides the badblocks app? > > We have a samsung hdd, that keeps fallin

how to find bad blocks

2010-02-09 Thread Vadkan Jozsef
Besides the badblocks app? We have a samsung hdd, that keeps falling out of raid, but there are no bad blocks on it, according to "badblocks" prog. we would like to return it [warranty], but it would be better to find e.g. bad blocks on it..:\ :D thank you! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-