Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:08:05 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA failure with 4.6.2 & 250GB drive? Message-ID: <20031015120805.GA16087@llama.fishballoon.org> In-Reply-To: <20031014160214.C51925D07@ptavv.es.net> References: <scott%2Bfreebsd@fishballoon.org> <20031014085554.GC84877@llama.fishballoon.org> <20031014160214.C51925D07@ptavv.es.net>
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Hi Kevin, As always, a most enlightening response :-) On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:02:14AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > It's a real drive problem, but possibly not a terminal one. (I had the > same issue on one of my drives a few months ago and it's fine now.) ... > The fix/workaround is to move the file(s) involved so that the damaged > blocks are marked free and relocated to spar space on the drive. You > can try to figure out just which file(s) use those blocks. There > might even be a reasonable way to do this...I just don't know what it > is. > > Another "fix"is to simply copy the drive onto another and then copy it > back. dd(1) will do the trick as will dump/restore. (I'd suggest the > dump/restore to copy the data out and dd to copy it back if the disks > have identical geometries.) Once the data is restored to the original > disk, the bad blocks will have been re-directed by the drive and will > no longer trouble you. I'll probably pull it out and run the Maxtor diagnostics over it to see if they turn up anything interesting. Do you think a low-level format would be useful? Very annoying to have two of these things die almost immediately after installation. Does not encourage me to buy more Maxtor products in the future :-( Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon
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