From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
To: Mark Lord <kernel@start.ca>
Cc: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>,
Marcus Overhagen <marcus.overhagen@gmail.com>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org
Subject: Re: SATA hdd refuses to reallocate a sector?
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 11:34:27 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130630143427.GA10035@khazad-dum.debian.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51CF6776.7090206@start.ca>
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013, Mark Lord wrote:
> 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.
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)...
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-30 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-23 10:19 SATA hdd refuses to reallocate a sector? Pavel Machek
2013-06-23 11:21 ` Pavel Machek
2013-06-23 13:16 ` Marcus Overhagen
2013-06-23 19:00 ` Pavel Machek
2013-06-23 21:27 ` Mark Lord
2013-06-23 21:51 ` Pavel Machek
2013-06-23 22:35 ` Mark Lord
2013-06-24 6:19 ` Marcus Overhagen
2013-06-24 12:28 ` Pavel Machek
2013-06-24 7:14 ` Ondrej Zary
2013-06-24 11:06 ` Pavel Machek
2013-06-24 12:18 ` Mark Lord
2013-06-26 3:04 ` James Bottomley
2013-06-26 6:11 ` Ondrej Zary
2013-06-29 18:47 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2013-06-29 23:02 ` Mark Lord
2013-06-30 14:34 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [this message]
2013-06-30 16:49 ` Pavel Machek
2013-07-01 13:28 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2015-04-30 19:01 ` Pavel Machek
2013-06-24 12:48 ` Zdenek Kaspar
2013-06-24 13:08 ` Ondrej Zary
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