Re: [Smartmontools-support]wierd problems

[Bruce A. <ba...@gr...>]

Hi Dieter,

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Dieter Stueken wrote:

> Bruce Allen wrote:
> >>Hi Christian,
> >>
> >>Your drive probably has a bad sector that can't be read.  I think this is
> >>what's indicated by the Current_Pending_Sector count. It's the one at LBA
> >>0x01006c8e.  Since the drive can't remap the sector without losing data,
> >>it won't do this automatically.  Probably running Maxtor's MaxSafe utility
> >>will "fix" the disk by remapping the bad sector.  But you may lose the 512
> >>bytes of data that is at that sector.
> >>
> >>I don't know how well NTFS copes with a lost sector, by the way.
> >>
> >>Bruce
> 
> You may also try the IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test from:
> http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm It is also capable to
> replace any unreadable/lost sector (called: bad sector erase). In
> addition it is able to analyse FAT or NTFS partitions and will report
> the name of the affected file(s), too.

Dieter,

Thanks very much -- this is useful to know.

Can DFT do a bad-sector erase on non-IBM/Hitachi drives?  I thought that
this required "vendor-specific" ATA commands.  I know that IBM documents
at least some of these vendor-specific commands, but I didn't know that
other vendors do.  Or perhaps they provide this information "privately" to
IBM.

Cheers,
	Bruce