Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:01:15 +0100 | From | Nico Schottelius <> | Subject | Re: harddisk or kernel problem? |
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Bruce Allen [Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:55:05AM -0600]: > [...] > FWIW, after reading this thread, I've slightly modified smartmontools so > that when smartctl prints the error log (-l error) it ALSO prints the LBA > at which a READ or WRITE command failed.
Thank you very much for patching smartctl and explaining howto calulate the LBA from those values.
So at least my hd crash had some sense.
> [Note that this is a 28-bit sector address. If a disk is larger than 2^37 > Bytes = 137 GB, then some LBAs can't be written in 28 bits, in which case > there won't be a summary error log entry. If the disk is smaller than > 2^37 Bytes then the failing LBA address should always be logged.]
Why are we bound to a 28 bit value? As there are currently more and more disks out there with >=260GB, I think this will be an issue very soon.
Have a nice day,
Nico, currenty working with knoppix, a wonderful live Linux (www.knopper.net/knoppix)
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