Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Jun 2013 19:02:14 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: SATA hdd refuses to reallocate a sector? |
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On 13-06-29 02:47 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > You know, either the "long" or the "offline" SMART test routines do exactly > that on any spinning rust device with a firmware that is not utterly broken. > > The HDD's firmware will rewrite, and even reallocate any "weak" sectors > found by the surface scan. >
The drives I have tried this on (smartctl -t long), abort at the first bad sector. Not useful.
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