From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Mark Lord <kernel@start.ca>,
Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>,
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 18:49:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130630164956.GA26305@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130630143427.GA10035@khazad-dum.debian.net>
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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-30 16:50 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
2013-06-30 16:49 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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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