On 08/17/2010 10:37 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday 15 August 2010 08:27 PM, JD wrote: >>>> That should be possible. Any errors should be a good reason to send the >>>> drives back. >>>> >>>> James McKenzie >>>> >> Of course. Be sure to zero out the drive if it contains >> sensitive data or private intellectual property before >> sending it for replacement. >> > > I have contacted Western Digital, but I am yet to hear from them. In the > mean time I want to minimize what ever problems I have since I have to > run my machine with this drive until they confirm my RMA. > > I came across this page on the smartmontools sourceforge page, > > http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html > > Does any one think its worth a try to attempt this? > > Thanks for any suggestions. It's probably worthwhile to try to identify the affected files and thus get some idea of how much time you'd spend trying to correct your 70+ remaining bad sectors that way. Hopefully you won't have any bad sectors that can only be located by running "smartctl -t long ..." (runs for ~1 hour, finds the first error, you fix that, then repeat) or by reading through the entire drive (takes ~3 hours for a 1TB drive -- use dd with "conv=noerror" so that you won't have to repeat that). -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
