Re: Disk failure

Briefly...

Yes, I would clone the drive if you have a spare, use ddrescue or
similar to ignore read errors.

smart long self test will halt at the first unreadable sector, and you
already know that there are at least 3.

Pending means currently unreadable, and you must overwrite this sector
for that status to go away.

You will want to ascertain which files (if any) "own" the unreadable
sectors, as they will have lost data.  If the sectors are contiguous on
disk, this is probably just one file, but best to find out which it is.

hdparm will allow you to read/write individual sectors (you can use this
to check that the sector you think is unreadable really is before
zeroing it out - then check smartctl output to confirm that pending
count has decreased).

If you can't find this on a wiki somewhere, then wiki it...

Tim.

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