[mdlug] badblocks question

[Robert Adkins]

    Get into orbit and nuke the place, it's the only way to be sure...

    Er... uh, wrong suggestion.

    Get new HDs, copy over the data, put them in place of the old HDs 
and retire the drives with the bad blocks. It's one way to be really 
sure and safe. (You can try reformatting the "bad blocks" drives after 
replacing them.)

    -Rob

Jason Taylor wrote:
> If the server hasn't had any recent dirty shutdowns, power fluctuations,
> etc. then I would lean to a hardware issue.
>
> -Jason
>
> On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 10:42 -0700, Dean Durant wrote:
>   
>> Hello, I have run badblocks on some IBM eSeries blades
>> that I need to get fixed.   It reports about 2 million
>> bad blocks on an 80 GB disk.   IBM has me run their
>> diagnostics and they don't find anything.  I have run
>> fsck and it finds and fixes some filesystem issues,
>> but the bad blocks persist.   Is there anything else I
>> can do, and do people think it is a hardware issue, a
>> bad disk, or a filesystem issue?   Thanks, Dean
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