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. -- "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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
