On 30/10/19 02:53, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 12:05:02PM +0000, Jorge Bastos wrote: >> > Same, especially with WD drives, they appear to be false positives, if >> > you can take the disk offline a full disk write will usually get rid >> > of them. > I see. So somehow reading all the sectors with hdrecover does not > trigger anything, but dd'ing 0s over the entire drive would reset this? Because a "pending" error is a sector that is unreadable, but if you don't write to it, the drive can't test whether the error is "transient" corruption, or whether the sector needs to be relocated. And of course, because it can't read the sector it can't do a transparent write because it doesn't know what was there to start with to write back ... Cheers, Wol
