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Date:      Thu, 5 Jul 2018 15:18:03 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Confusing smartd messages
Message-ID:  <5B3DD43B.5010208@grosbein.net>
In-Reply-To: <201807050425.w654PlLu046202@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <201807050425.w654PlLu046202@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>

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05.07.2018 11:25, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

>>> It would of also been nice if the ata standard would of made a way
>>> to get the LBA of pending sectors so that a very quick rewrite attempt
>>> could be done to fix them.  IIRC this info is avalible, but in a vendor
>>> specific way.
>>
>> "smartctl -t long" reveals LBA of first pending sector.
> 
> That is vendor dependent

Have not seen any exceptions with modern (e.g. last 5 years) HDDs.

> and well only return the pending sector
> if the pending sector fails for most vendors.  It may fix the
> sector if it could read it.

This is first time I hear about fixind sector problem by just reading it.
I believed that only a write can fix it.





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