From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-user+bounces-157460-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70ECD1391DB for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 04:44:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1626E0C12; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 04:44:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oi0-f47.google.com (mail-oi0-f47.google.com [209.85.218.47]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 25F99E0D53 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 04:44:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oi0-f47.google.com with SMTP id x69so5529313oia.34 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:44:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=EhUn+9/mFzf/eYRfA8UoXVGoMhmUcVDno7wgGF7Af+I=; b=dorFrlbcxdevKVJ9mhklD3df7arY2yDraR/r/4mdZdymOttboKxa0/tRMUNN5B2zKI jFKSS6WD4T9xq57TTlVhFdabr6WHEXlfTPVju12j+xilEMuRrjkMbjW1wy/yg3oLtXKx 5jMuWSMJ5BQiHomr0GfX2QBXVdZLxVNkmGtE8HhO6RxXeY6OAbIykV1IX49+hZ7Lhz8i XpBSESb30z2TT3rfgv140C906vqY4l8b8b1o9jHxSMfkHr3YVMLAa2x79dBMfjnwDkYD ZXOzafguzQfcKdcxsheoFpId9qPQFK+Kfpj1RqUvOFzeHAUGZmvH00XaGyLSMQaKKEUL 6+Qg== Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.160.38 with SMTP id xh6mr9606175oeb.82.1406522665277; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:44:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.202.174.72 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:44:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140727112922.GC3817@solfire> References: <20140727101247.GA3817@solfire> <20140727112736.54eb3995@digimed.co.uk> <20140727104115.GB3817@solfire> <53D4DE5C.2080307@gmail.com> <20140727112922.GC3817@solfire> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 22:44:25 -0600 Message-ID: <CAGQH77dAXTud32mwzN1TnuQc3DSxhFEGHYGeoNR3bLUE0Wi1Og@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Contradictionary behaviour of SMART on hds ?!? From: =?UTF-8?Q?Jc_Garc=C3=ADa?= <jyo.garcia@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 1863cb3c-d987-4a6a-8f48-48429d565a34 X-Archives-Hash: d5c6b374f64adf50fb954445f3445d44 2014-07-27 5:29 GMT-06:00 <meino.cramer@gmx.de>: > > Back to the initial problem: > > How can I offline test the rest of the disk if > the first bad sector (10%) of the surface breaks > the test with an error? > > Best regards, > mcc I've only read this thread not the previous, and I can only give some feedback on this part, if i understood dd reported failing at 4288352511 bytes in your drive, make a loopback device with an offset past that sector to try dd keep going, or run dd with skip up to that sector with. # losetup -o 428835252 /dev/loop1 /dev/your_hdd just to give an example, calculate an apropiate byte count for a 1 sector above, and then use dd on /dev/loop1