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

[Ric Moore via TriLUG]

On 04/16/2015 12:35 PM, Bill Farrow wrote:
> 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

A big thank you!! That worked slick as anything. I did hold my breath 
when I rebooted though. So far, no errors in dmesg! I love Linux! Ric



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