Re: Trouble finding bad block on WDC WD1600SB-01KBA0

On 2017-01-11 02:15, mathog wrote:
> On 10-Jan-2017 02:07, Carlos E. R. wrote:

>> I run "badblocks" with the intention of locating them, and they
>> disappeared...
> 
> Rebooted that node into PLD Rescue CD over the network, ssh'd into it
> and ran
> 
>     badblocks -nvs /dev/sda >/tmp/bb.log 2>&1 &
> 
> somewhere along the line the pending sector cleared, but there was no 
> message
> giving the block number, and it said there were no errors.  The 
> UDMA_CRC_ERROR_COUNT is still 1.

Yes, same thing here. I don't remember that parameter what value it had.


> So that worked.
> 
> Now, for the next time, is there a command one can use
> while the OS is running and the disk mounted that can do something 
> similar?

Previously I figured it out from the point that the long test stopped.

> badblocks -n isn't happy running on mounted disks, and that badblocks
> command took ~4.5 hours.

Yes, it runs for a very long time, yes. I'm unsure if my disk was
mounted or not.

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)

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