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Date:	Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:08:07 +0200
From:	Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org>
To:	Zdenek Kaspar <zkaspar82@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SATA hdd refuses to reallocate a sector?

On Monday 24 June 2013, Zdenek Kaspar wrote:
> On 06/23/2013 12:19 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > This may very well be hw problem, but...
> >
> > I have error on sda4. I tried to make hdd reallocate it by writing
> > zeros there, but it will not. Is there special kind of write that
> > needs to be done to force reallocation?
>
> Hi Pavel, maybe smartctl -t long /dev/sda will do the trick reliable for
> your drive..

It's a read-only test that ends with an error on the first bad sector.

-- 
Ondrej Zary
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