[TriLUG] dying disk with LBA error but no reallocated sectors

[Bill Farrow via TriLUG]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Ric Moore via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>>>  http://www.sj-vs.net/forcing-a-hard-disk-to-reallocate-bad-sectors/
> $ hdparm –read-sector 1261069669 /dev/sdb
>
> how did he calculate the sector??
> Thanks, Ric

He got the sector number from the kernel log read failure message:
  Jan 29 18:19:54 dragon kernel: [66774.973049] end_request: I/O
error, dev sdb, sector 1261069669


Bill