[ltp] Bad hard drive sector

[Daniel Skorka]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 07:30:40PM +0100, Macskasi Csaba wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:16:14 +0100, Bill Sheppard <Bill.Sheppard@Sun.COM>  
> wrote:
> >So it appears there is a bad sector (or sectors on the hard drive).
> >It's a fairly new Toshiba MK6026GAX 60GB.  I understand the drives are
> >supposed to reallocate bad sectors automatically, but it appears it
> >isn't since the error persists.  Any ideas how I can correct this?
> Have you tried fsck? I think that it should mark the sector as bad and  
> prevent it's usage...

Once fsck finds the first bad sector, your SMART harddrive has already
found and hidden quite some bad sectors on its own. Get the warranty
while you can.

Daniel