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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be
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On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:05:39 +0100, Micha=EBl Gr=FCnewald <michaelgrunewald=
@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> (I feel sorry for the very poor english I demonstrated in the message I=20
> wrote this morning: I was in a hurry!)

Don't mind, many user here aren't native speakers, but are
still completely good to understand.



> I have backups of the data contained in the broken, so the data on this=20
> disc are not a concern.

So then: Goodbye, cruel hard disk, it's over... and let
it fly. :-)



> I have however a question: How do I verify that=20
> a hard-drive is accurately working if its firmware will hide the bad=20
> sectors as long as possible?

I think the smartctl program from ports/smartmontools is=20
a good tool for such verification. As far as I understood,
it can read internal error logs from the firmware.



> As the other contributors join their voices
> to yours, I will replace the faulty disk ASAP.

Best choice, especially because you don't need to run the
hard disk in order to get the data back. Oh backups are
such a fine thing, I wish I had some. :-)



--=20
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...