Re: [smartmontools-support] strange error

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This is has been a very educational thread for me so far. A couple of
[probably newbie] inline questions:

> The newer extended logs support 48-bit LBA. Please try:
>
>    smartctl -l xerror -l xselftest ...
>
> or:
>
>    smartctl -x ...

Does this mean I can't trust the SMART Attributes to give a complete
picture of the hard drive health?

>
> It is not uncommon that self-tests are aborted immediately by the
> firmware if a pending sector still exists.
>
> Please check the full disk with some tool. I prefer GNU ddrescue, which
> was also suggested by Alex.

I've used ddrescue once, but not for doing a pending sector read. Am I
correct in guessing the command would something like:

ddrescue /dev/sdb /dev/null

If the purpose is to just force the disk to re-read the pending sector,
wouldn't the other two methods work equally as well, i.e.
sudo hdparm --read-sector 502093169 /dev/sdb
or what Milos did
badblocks /dev/sdb (perhaps with a -b and/or -c option to speed things up)

BTW Milos, after you did the badblocks, did the pending sector go away?