[sllug-members]: fsck and bad sector list

[Don Flemming]

My first suggestion is to run an anti virus scan off a safe boot disk.There are older binary virus's that specifically rewrite your bad sector table but I haven't heard of anyone encountering these in a few years. Then  ask yourself how old is the harddrive? Maxtors are somewhat known for sudden failures like that and typically after three years. fsck (filesystem check) appears to rebuild your bad sector table, it may simply have found your drive about to die. I look forward to what you find out.
  Don
James Helsby <cyanics at xmission.com> wrote:
  All,

I have a 250Gb HD, which was reporting file corruption. As a result, I 
ran an fsck.ext3 -f -y /dev/sdb1 (the device) on it, which resulted in 
me loosing 150 of the 250 GB of space. For some reason, the fsck decided 
that everything was bad-sector, and added it to the bad-sector list.

Here is the problem. I still need the drive. I know that there are no 
physical problems with the disk, and it has since be physically scanned 
for magnetic defects, and low-level formatted. However, both of these 
actions have not cleared the bad-sector list.

Anyone on the list know how to clear a bad-sector list? It is a Maxtor 
DiamondMax 10 (pata133). The system I run it on is Ubuntu 6.10.

Cheers
JH.

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