[TriLUG] dying disk with LBA error but no reallocated sectors

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2015, Ric Moore via TriLUG wrote:

> On 04/16/2015 12:35 PM, Bill Farrow wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Ric Moore via TriLUG
>> <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>>>>>   http://www.sj-vs.net/forcing-a-hard-disk-to-reallocate-bad-sectors/
>>> $ hdparm –read-sector 1261069669 /dev/sdb
>>>
>>> how did he calculate the sector??
>>> Thanks, Ric
>>
>> He got the sector number from the kernel log read failure message:
>>    Jan 29 18:19:54 dragon kernel: [66774.973049] end_request: I/O
>> error, dev sdb, sector 1261069669

presumably it would have shown up as a bad LBA in the output of smartctl?

Joe

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> A big thank you!! That worked slick as anything. I did hold my breath 
> when I rebooted though. So far, no errors in dmesg! I love Linux! Ric
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