bad block/superblock on new disk?

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Samstag, den 23.05.2020, 15:43 +0200 schrieb M. Fioretti:
> 
> dmesg says:
> 
> [256797.921297] print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sdb,
> sector 0
> [256802.521195] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result:
> hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
> [256802.521241] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Sense Key : Medium Error
> [current]
> [256802.521250] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read
> error
> [256802.521260] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 00
> 00 00 00 08 00
> [256802.521269] print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sdb,
> sector 0
> [256802.521285] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb, logical block 0, async
> page read
> 

if you are sure there is no loose connection in the enclosure or
whatnot, i'd return the drive ... 

you can surely dig up all broken blocks and mark them unusable during
formatting so you get some filesystem consistency ... but the
underlying issue wont go away and has the potential to eat bits of your
data over time.

ciao
	oli
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