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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 18:49:56 +0200 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br> Cc: Mark Lord <kernel@...rt.ca>, Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org>, 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? Hi! > > > 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. > > Which vendor? The Seagates I have on hand are not that crappy, for example > (their issues are subpar mechanics and the resulting high rate of failure, > but the firmware at least is not a piece of crap)... Are you sure? I seem to have firmware issues: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Momentus 5400.6 series ... and yes, -t long terminates after first error :-(. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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