Re: [SLUG] Bad sector's

2010-10-08 Thread Josh Smith
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 07:29 +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote: > Josh Smith said: > > Can Linux have trouble booting if there is bad sectors on the disk. > > Definitely. No operating system in the world has mental telepathy. Every > OS boots based on the data the disk gives it, and if the disk doesn’t >

Re: [SLUG] Bad sector's

2010-10-07 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Jeremy Visser wrote: > Josh Smith said: > > sda1= 150 bad sectors > > sdb1= 392 bad sectors > > sdc1= 238 bad sectors > > Weird that you have bad sectors on each drive. Unless all three drives > are really old and decrepit. Faulty cabling or disk controller could explain why all three disks are

Re: [SLUG] Bad sector's

2010-10-07 Thread Jeremy Visser
Josh Smith said: > Can Linux have trouble booting if there is bad sectors on the disk. Definitely. No operating system in the world has mental telepathy. Every OS boots based on the data the disk gives it, and if the disk doesn’t give the right data, no amount of Open Source Magic™ or Reality Dist

[SLUG] Bad sector's

2010-10-07 Thread Josh Smith
Can Linux have trouble booting if there is bad sectors on the disk. Lately Linux is being having trouble loading taking a long time to load up. Even when in the / dir it was problems. sda1= 150 bad sectors sdb1= 392 bad sectors sdc1= 238 bad sectors -- Ask a question and be dumb for