From: John L. <joh...@bi...> - 2004-09-18 05:27:09
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Ok, thank you for that. Yes it was bad for several months before I could have the equipment shipped back. Is there a way to manually force the drive to remap that sector without formating the entire drive? I realize the data on the sector would be lost but restoring the drive to normal operation would allow me to be sure the drive was ok. I could then restore the missing data from backup. This would be better than having it log errors constantly and certainly easier than having to ship the machine back to fix it. John On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 00:15, Geoffrey Keating wrote: > John Lange <joh...@bi...> writes: > > > I had a machine that had dual ATA Segate 120G drives. One of the drives > > started to fail, or at least thats what I thought. > > > > I took the drives out and replaced them with SATA drives. I then put the > > failed drive into my desktop machine so I could confirm its failing > > status before returning it on warranty. > > > > I reformatted the drive with > > > > # mke2fs -c -c -j /dev/hdb1 > ... > > Hi John, > > It looks like your drive had one sector that was corrupted, which was > successfully rewritten by the mke2fs command, and so is now OK. So right > now, the drive is functioning normally. > > Drives can get corrupted sectors for many reasons; because of problems > with the drive, or for other reasons (for instance, if the drive is > bumped, or a power supply fluctuation). > > It looks like this sector has been corrupted for a while, at least two > months, considering the timestamps on the error logs. It could be > even longer. > > From the SMART data, there doesn't seem any more reason to think this > drive is about to fail catastrophically than there would be for any other > drive. |