On Friday 28 September 2007, Greg Freemyer wrote: > All, > > Having an issue I thought I knew how to address, but it is not > working. OpenSUSE 10.2 is booting into a maintenance mode due to a > bad sector read on the hard disk. I'm not worried about the data on > the drive and so far it is just one bad sector. > > So I would like to cause the drive to map the sector to one of its > spares, then do a fsck on the partiion, then some kind of installation > verification step, or if truly necessary I can reinstall. > > I'm stuck on the first step. I thought writing data to the sector > would cause the drive to remap it, but that is not happening. > > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null skip=312518818 count=1 > > Is very slow to return and triggers the bad sector error messages. > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda skip=312518818 count=1 > > returns very fast and and reports success, but redoing the above read > again still returns errors. > > Is there a different way to get that sector remapped?
Maybe you will find the link below useful. http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/BadBlockHowTo.txt Regards, Erwin Lam -- Erwin Lam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
