Re: [smartmontools-support] bad lba is greater than drives maximum block

[Christian F. <Chr...@t-...>]

lxn...@gm... wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Alex Samorukov wrote:
>
>> On 11/17/2012 04:35 PM, lxn...@gm... wrote:
>>>   Please point me straight
>>>   I have a drive showing 2 bad blocks
>>>   I want to find the files associated with these blocks
>>>   I have read "Bad block HOWTO for smartmontools" but am still confused
>>>   The first lba 333161989705 is greater than 1465144064
>>>
>> I had similar problem. My workaround was to run long test and get correct
>> sector number from the -l selftest. Also you could look on dmesg to find
>> failed sector.
> I ran a long test after I found this
>
> SMART Extended Self-test Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)
> Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
> # 1  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%     27220
> -

Then the reported errors were transient or the bad blocks have been 
reallocated.