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 -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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
