IWETHEY v. 0.3.0 | TODO
1,095 registered users | 0 active users | 1 LpH | Statistics
Login | Create New User
IWETHEY Banner

Welcome to IWETHEY!

IWETHEY Home / IWETHEY Board / Hardware Forum / What about...
Post #48,951
by bepatient
Picture of bepatient
8/10/02 5:31:05 PM
Reply
New What about...
...short read errors when booting that crap out fsck?

I have a feeling that my server's drive is about to die...but was wondering if I could just bark the 3 sectors bad and keep running?
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson

[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
Post #48,955
by Ashton
8/10/02 6:28:03 PM
Reply
New Curious..
Assuming you aren't formatted in Reiserfs or some other cockamamie Real File System for a real OS: could you boot to DOS (yeah That DOS) and run SpinRite on your *.nix install?

(I mean - without partition tomfoolery and some kluge simulating 'logical drives' as a temporary expedient, which I don't quite see enough to be sure: is either absurd or.. probably a lot of fakery to be done)

Reason being - while you can obviously X-out any old sectors you want to, once you know which they are: with SR you would also get a free refresh of the lo-level format, along with his magic B/H magnetic prestidigitation of every magn. domain on the disk. It could save a drive (has for me) but guessing in advance is.. er impossible.

??

Ashton
Pity ol Steve hasn't redone SR for modrin thingies.. :(
Post #48,983
by static
Picture of static
8/11/02 2:17:06 AM
Reply
New Dunno.
The drive I was having problems with was FAT32. It was having trouble booting to it's installed Windows 98, but the BIOS was complaining about it, too. And when I booted the Linux CD, it took a full minute trying to read the partition table before it gave up as a damaged drive. Whilst SMART drives are supposed to remap bad sectors, this is not an infallible algorithm.

Wade.

"Ah. One of the difficult questions."
     Maxtor: DriveSeekStatus Error (error=0x84) - (kmself) - (17) - Aug. 6, 2002, 09:25:08 PM EDT
         IDE or SCSI? RAID? - (deSitter) - (3) - Aug. 7, 2002, 01:42:37 PM EDT
             hda: IDE, non-RAIDEed - (kmself) - (2) - Aug. 7, 2002, 06:33:26 PM EDT
                 Any of you Help Desk Dudes Workin' This Ticket? -NT - (deSitter) - Aug. 9, 2002, 08:27:19 PM EDT
                 Well gimme some more info... - (folkert) - Aug. 10, 2002, 11:28:41 AM EDT
         heads doin the whorly bird - (boxley) - Aug. 7, 2002, 02:41:20 PM EDT
         Gota spare controller card? - (Ashton) - Aug. 7, 2002, 04:59:07 PM EDT
         That's your disk's way of saying, - (pwhysall) - (4) - Aug. 7, 2002, 06:08:51 PM EDT
             I agree. - (static) - (3) - Aug. 10, 2002, 04:10:38 AM EDT
                 What about... - (bepatient) - (2) - Aug. 10, 2002, 05:31:05 PM EDT
                     Curious.. - (Ashton) - Aug. 10, 2002, 06:28:03 PM EDT
                     Dunno. - (static) - Aug. 11, 2002, 02:17:06 AM EDT
         "DriveStatusErrorBadCRC" ??? - (CRConrad) - (5) - Oct. 1, 2002, 04:08:26 AM EDT
             Well, that depends . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Oct. 1, 2002, 05:15:47 AM EDT
                 He's the cranky CRC. ;-) -NT - (n3jja) - Oct. 1, 2002, 08:16:30 AM EDT
                 Good ... bad ... he's the one with the drive status error -NT - (drewk) - Oct. 1, 2002, 04:39:21 PM EDT
             We all know about CRC. And, it is a "good thing". :) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - Oct. 1, 2002, 04:21:58 PM EDT
             When one {sob} has become an Industry Standard Error - (Ashton) - Oct. 1, 2002, 10:14:11 PM EDT

Your ears are broken.
60 ms