All, I've installed and run the smartmontools package backported to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 from http://www.backports.org, and have run the short and extended Offline self tests. The results are as follows: smartctl version 5.32 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 4089 8371832 # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 4088 - # 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 - My manager suggested that I reformat the partitions (we use ReiserFS), to mark the bad blocks. Is this a viable option? Can the drive be salvaged, or should it be replaced? Thanks. Michael -- Michael G. Morey <mmorey@optivel.com> Optivel
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