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>    1. Re: Bad hard drive sector (Theodore Ts'o)
>    2. Re: Gentoo on thinkpad? (Richard Neill)
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> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:39:43 -0500
> From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> Subject: Re: [ltp] Bad hard drive sector
> Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
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> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:28:25AM +0100, Florian Reitmeir wrote:
> 
>>On Son, 15 J??n 2006, Bill Sheppard wrote:
>>
>>>So it looks like rewriting the sector cleared the error, at least for now.
>>>Thanks everyone for the input...
>>
>>Maybe you want to give "badblocks" a try, it can force sector relocation.
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> 
> Badblocks in read/write mode can force sector relocation; the sector
> only gets relocated on an attempted *write* to the sector.  Of course,
> as soon as you do that, the original data is lost forever, so in
> general most OS's will not automatically force bad block relocation
> when a read error is detected, in the hopes that the maybe the error
> is transient --- and the desire to allow the user to explicitly make
> the decision to abandon a certain piece of data.  Unfortunately, there
> doesn't seem to be a good way to get the list of blocks for which
> errors have been reported (other than manually grovelling through
> system logs).
> 
> So the simplest and safest (if not the fastest) way of forcing the bad
> block relocation to take place is to run e2fsck -cc /dev/hdXXX with
> the filesystem unmounted.   
> 
> 						- Ted
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 02:44:24 +0000
> From: Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
> Organization: Trinity College
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> Subject: Re: [ltp] Gentoo on thinkpad?
> Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> Thank you very much for your advice. I'm very grateful for it, and I 
> thought I'd follow up this thread. Basically, I've decided that
> 
> a)Yes, I do want to learn about Gentoo. I'm going to buy a new Desktop 
> machine (AMD64) soon - and will put Gentoo there. I suspect it will be 
> much more pleasant as a learning environment!
> 
> b)My thinkpad is not my primary machine, so I shall leave it with 
> Mandriva 2006, now that this is *almost* working. The howto I wrote at 
> richardneill.org for Mandrake 9.1 will be updated shortly (I've written 
> most of it now) with all the fixes. (*)  I think that a detailed 
> Mandriva Howto will be more useful to the community than a struggling 
> Gentoo newbie.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> (*)I think I should call it Frankenlinux! There are about 4 separate 
> sources of packages, each nominally incompatible in order to make 
> everything work properly. Furthermore, I've had to write wrapper scripts 
> around several programs (xscreensaver, suspend-to-ram, kppp, drkonqui) 
> in order to fix bugs.
> 
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