Re: SATA hdd refuses to reallocate a sector?

[Mark Lord]

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.

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