NeilBrown wrote: > If you want to write to it which might make the drive think it isn't > bad any more, you could > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdj seek=1953103080 count=1 > > But if it were me, I would do > dd if=/dev/sdj of=/dev/null skip=1953103080 count=1 > and confirm that gives and error, just to double check the numbers. Thanks very much for your help. I managed to get rid of the bad block. However I had to write 4kB at once to the bad region (bs=4096) for the drive to correct the block. Using bs=1 didn't seem able to get rid of the errors. Strangely, the Reallocated_Sector_Ct is still zero on the drive even though Current_Pending_Sector is now zero. This is a Samsung HD103UJ by the way. Jeremy -- Jeremy Sanders <jss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/ X-Ray Group, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK. Public Key Server PGP Key ID: E1AAE053 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
