Bad sector

[Justin Piszcz]

I had a bad sector and used the methods below, 2 days later the drive 
croaked!  RMA'd it today.  Bad sector? RMA it!

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 16:07:10 -0400,
>  Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
>>
>> One needs backups to recover from disk failures, even just uncorrectable
>> bad sectors.  There must be some tool to map a bad blocks list to the
>> affected files, but I don't know what it is.
>
> There is some information on this at:
> http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/BadBlockHowTo.txt
>
> Also, if you are using software raid 1, you can copy the data for the problem
> sectors from the other disk.
>
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