[arch-general] Bad Magic Number in Superblock - Any trick for Arch or for new kernels?

[Mauro Santos]

On 06/09/2010 07:16 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> 
> 	Before I add the drive to the heap of drives in my 'dead drive box' are there
> any other silver bullets I should try to try and resurrect the drive? (Data
> isn't an issue, it's all backed up :-)
> 
> 	What say the gurus?
> 

Try issuing a smart short test and see if it goes well, if it does
finish without errors then issue a full smart self test and check for
any smart attribute changes and/or errors.

If that goes well, which seems to indicate that the drive is still ok,
then use badblocks and let it do the 4 write and read passes, keep an
eye on the smart attributes because any problem not detected before may
show up now. If you get no errors or smart attribute changes then the
drive should be ok.

-- 
Mauro Santos