2010/1/28 Vishal Rao <vishalrao@xxxxxxxxx>: > 2010/1/28 David Rees <drees76@xxxxxxxxx>: >> >> 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. > > The first "badblocks /dev/sda7" run went ahead with no output. here's the output, let me know if im doing something incorrect and/or any of you need further info/testing from me: vishal@thunderbird:~$ sudo badblocks -nv /dev/sda7 | tee badblocks.txt [sudo] password for vishal: Checking for bad blocks in non-destructive read-write mode >From block 0 to 25173822 Testing with random pattern: Pass completed, 0 bad blocks found. vishal@thunderbird:~$ cat badblocks.txt vishal@thunderbird:~$ dmesg | grep ata1 [ 0.890636] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xe3225000 port 0xe3225100 irq 30 [ 1.420680] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 1.420952] ata1.00: HPA unlocked: 250067567 -> 250069680, native 250069680 [ 1.420959] ata1.00: ATA-8: CRUCIAL_CT128M225, 1916, max UDMA/133 [ 1.420962] ata1.00: 250069680 sectors, multi 1: LBA48 NCQ (not used) [ 1.421629] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 vishal@thunderbird:~$ uname -a Linux thunderbird 2.6.32-11-generic #16~vishalrao2 SMP Tue Jan 26 19:03:33 IST 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux vishal@thunderbird:~$ -- 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
