linux-kernel - Re: SATA hdd refuses to reallocate a sector?

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Message-ID: <51CF6776.7090206@start.ca>
Date:	Sat, 29 Jun 2013 19:02:14 -0400
From:	Mark Lord <kernel@...rt.ca>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
CC:	Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Mark Lord <mlord@...ox.com>,
	Marcus Overhagen <marcus.overhagen@...il.com>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, tj@...nel.org
Subject: Re: SATA hdd refuses to reallocate a sector?

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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