As a last update on those drives, sadly they seem to have real problems
with SMART, which is why I was confused when using them.
myth:~# badblocks -fsvn -b512 /dev/sdf
/dev/sdf is apparently in use by the system; badblocks forced anyway.
Checking for bad blocks in non-destructive read-write mode
>From block 0 to 3131110575
Checking for bad blocks (non-destructive read-write test)
Testing with random pattern: done
Pass completed, 0 bad blocks found. (0/0/0 errors)
That means a full read/write scan ran ok.
Yet:
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 7
7 sectors still marked as pending. This makes no sense...
As far as I can tell, SMART is just broken on those drives, and they're
going back to where I got them from.
Thanks all for the replies and helping me confirm this.
Marc
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