Re: [smartmontools-support]Problem with read failure

[Marko <mk-...@em...>]

On Sunday 23 October 2005 17:21, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> For one case of bad blocks on a disk where I was having trouble getting
> some bad blocks reallocated I ended up having success using the
> manufacturer's tools. Where as repeated running badblocks with write tests
> didn't work, running the manufacturer's stuff did. The only difference I
> noticed in the logs was that it looked like the manufacturer's tests ran a
> conveyence seleftest, where I had been running long and short selftests to
> see if the blocks had been reallocated.
Unfortunately my drive doesn't allow for conveyance selftests...

But I got the HUTIL.EXE from Samsung now and perhaps must give it a try if I 
run into failures repeatedly.

Marko