Re: bad blocks in under 2.5 years! So much for HP ...

From: David Kinsell (kinsell_at_poboxyz.com)
Date: 11/03/05


Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:05:21 -0700

milkyway wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Suse Linux system. I have had a HP Pavilion laptop (zv5000)
> for a little more than 2 years and the hard drive appears to be faulty
> - after only 2 years ;-/
>
> I have been able to run the Suse Rescue program to get some kind of OS
> up and going:
>
> Linux Rescue 2.6.4-52 .. i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> I get the following error:
>
> reiserfs_read_locked_inode: i/o failure occurred trying to find
> stat
>
> which is exactly like the problem stated in this thread:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.suse/browse_frm/thread/fac1040564d7c1cf/0a0c77087bd58d65?lnk=st&q=reiserfs_read_locked_inode&rnum=5#0a0c77087bd58d65
>
> The advice I have been seeing online specifies to get a list of bad
> blocks and then running a command upon them (the bad blocks) as
> specified on this page:
>
> http://www.namesys.com/bad-block-handling.html
>
> **My problem: I do not know how to get the outuput of the list of
> "badblocks" to a file.
>
> **My question is: Is there some way to repair the blocks by using just
> *one* command on the entiere hard disk system? In otherwords, can I do:
>
> command_name /dev/hda
>
> and then have *all* the bad blocks repaired?
>
> -OR-
>
> is there a way to get this list to a file?

If it's a large list of genuinely bad sectors, toss the drive.
It's ready to fail totally. I wouldn't mess with it unless it's
just one or two sectors, and even then, I wouldn't trust the drive
very far.

>
> -OR-
>
> Is there another way to address this problem?

Most drives have something called SMART built in. It's
a way of getting low-level diagnostic information. See:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983

Disk vendors usually have diagnostics available. They may
be bootable systems, or may just be a program running under Windoze.

-Dave

>
> I am soooo disappointed with this laptop. I have another laptop from
> Compaq (a 1700) that is *much* older and I never had any problems
> whereas with this HP, it goes out a little after 2 years.
>
> TIA
>



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