Re: [HDD problem] Strange remount read-only

[belbo <andrea.ballatore@gmail.com>]

Bruno Buys wrote:
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>> I did "fsck.ext3 -c /dev/hdb5". It finds many badblock, but it is
>> useless. How
>> can I avoid badblocks?
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>> Bye
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> You can have good practices, to avoid exposing the drive to unnecessary
> danger, like mechanic impact, eletric fields or bad power supply. All
> this won't make sure you are safe from badblocks, but will hopefully
> help. But this is BEFORE the problem. After badblocks appear, theres
> nothing to do to save the drive, unless you believe in magic, vodoo,
> freezing the drive and then warming it up and other folk stories...
> What you can try to do is save whatever data is possible to be saved
> from it, backing it all up. Do it soon.
> Good luck!

If there are BadBlocks in my hard drive, the driver normally can manage them,
simply not using them. I wanted to ask if there is some sort of hdparm (or sth
like that) option to tell the driver "hey, avoid the badblocks".

Thank you,

Bye