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. -- 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
