Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:52:15 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Micha=EBl_Gr=FCnewald?= <michaelgrunewald@yahoo.fr> Cc: freebsd questions general <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be Message-ID: <20091028125215.55ad3801.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4AE75293.5020603@yahoo.fr> References: <FAF67E79-922C-4F54-8BE1-2C3ED88FD3CD@yahoo.fr> <20091027150519.dcee178a.freebsd@edvax.de> <4AE75293.5020603@yahoo.fr>
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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, ...
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