From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753470Ab3F2XRO (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jun 2013 19:17:14 -0400 Received: from mouse.start.ca ([64.140.120.56]:50689 "EHLO mouse.start.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752031Ab3F2XRK (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jun 2013 19:17:10 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 856 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 19:17:10 EDT Message-ID: <51CF6776.7090206@start.ca> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 19:02:14 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh CC: Ondrej Zary , Pavel Machek , Mark Lord , Marcus Overhagen , kernel list , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org Subject: Re: SATA hdd refuses to reallocate a sector? References: <20130623101940.GA4448@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <51C76858.4060906@pobox.com> <20130623215100.GA7414@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <201306240914.29502.linux@rainbow-software.org> <20130629184716.GA9330@khazad-dum.debian.net> In-Reply-To: <20130629184716.GA9330@khazad-dum.debian.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.