On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Vishal Rao <vishalrao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2010/1/28 Mark Lord <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> The errors in that log indicate bad media. >> So the question is, can you demonstrate Win7rc NOT having the same >> errors when accessing the SAME (logical) sectors ? > > Would that mean I have to blow away my precious ext4 partitions and > have them Win7rc NTFS formatted and run a full check-disk with > bad block checking enabled? No - you just need a tool to do a full read of the partition. You could use the cygwin tools and dd, for example. > In the mean time, can I run a linux command (please tell me what it is or > I will search for something to run online) or tool while NCQ is disabled (via > libata.force=noncq) that can do a disk scan with bad block checking? badblocks <name of partition> See the man page for more details, but that should do a read test - may want to boot from a rescue disk or from another disk if possible to run the test. -Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
