Re: ata errors -> read-only root partition. Hardware issue?

[jerome lacoste]

On 1/11/06, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mer, 2006-01-11 at 09:30 +0100, jerome lacoste wrote:
> > - scan for bad blocks
>
> Read the entire disk (write will hide and clean up errors by
> reallocating)

something like should be sufficient right?

cat /dev/sdax > /dev/null

Thanks a lot.

Jerome
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