On Sun, 30 Jun 2013, Pavel Machek 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. > > > > 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 Apparently there is too much of a difference between Seagate Momentus and Seagate Barracuda. The barracuda are not crap [as far as the firmware goes], where apparently the Momentus have crap firmware. So we're both correct, and I was not precise enough when I spoke well of Seagate firware :-) -- "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
