On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 09:02:22 +0200 (CEST) Mikael Abrahamsson
<swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Aug 2014, NeilBrown wrote:

> >> 2) how UREs should be visible? Via error reporting through dmesg?
> >
> > If you want to see how the system responds when it hits a URE, you can use the
> > hdparm command and the "--make-bad-sector" option.  There is also a
> > "--repair-sector" option which will (hopefully) repair the sector when you
> > are done.
> 
> Does this command do the same as with a real URE, ie will try until the 
> timeout of the drive (which is what, 90 seconds on a consumer drive, 7 
> seconds of an enterprise drive, right?).

All I know is what I read in "man hdparm".

NeilBrown