On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:54:30AM -0400, Ric Flomag wrote: > > > > If the drive has smart you could ask the drive's diagnostics > > if there's any indication of trouble. > > > > > I am not familiar with SMART. It reports 4 pending sectors and nothing else > wrong. That is pretty bad. It means 4 unreadable sectors. Modern HDDs try pretty had to read damaged sectors ond usually succeed. >I have run a "badblocks -nvs > /dev/sdb3<https://one.ubuntu.com/dev/sdb3>", > it did not find any error... And after this, SMART still reports 4 pending > sectors. Meaning the pending sectors are someplae else. > Any clue about how investigating further ? badblocks on /dev/sdb. Arno > Regards. > > > 2011/9/8 Karl O. Pinc <kop@xxxxxxxx> > > > On 09/08/2011 10:46:42 AM, Ric Flomag wrote: > > > > > > > What worries me is that I have no clue what happened. A damage to the > > > header > > > is it possible without any signs of it ? > > > > I've not been paying attention, but have a thought. > > > > If the drive has smart you could ask the drive's diagnostics > > if there's any indication of trouble. > > > > Regards, > > > > Karl <kop@xxxxxxxx> > > Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." > > -- Robert A. Heinlein > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
