RE: how to find bad blocks
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vadkan Jozsef [mailto:jozsi.avadkan@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 09 February, 2010 08:44
> To: Debian User Mailing list
> Subject: how to find bad blocks
>
> Besides the badblocks app?
>
> We have a samsung hdd, that keeps falling out of raid, but
> there are no
> bad blocks on it, according to "badblocks" prog.
>
> we would like to return it [warranty], but it would be better to find
> e.g. bad blocks on it..:\ :D
>
> thank you!
>
Can you get SMART data from it?
I don't think you can list the bad blocks that the drive is re-mapping, but you can certainly get the number of times the drive has had to do that.
The manpage for smartctl describes how to query individual disks behind various RAID controllers.
HTH
James Zuelow
Network Specialist
City and Borough of Juneau MIS (907)586-0236
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