Hadders wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
You've got some misconceptions. Those drives do sector remapping. Using
read/write tests won't detect this, as the FEC on the discs will hide
the errors. You need to query the disc itself for the knowledge it
has.
# smartctl -a /dev/hdx
# hdparm -I /dev/hdx
may help.
Mike
Okay, that makes sense. But I need to write something to them to have
the FEC detect a failure and remap it?
You do that all the time when you use the disc. A new disc from
the manufacturer has already been through more stringent tests
than you can do at home. I look at that data about 2 or 3x per
year, and I haven't seen any errors on my disc yet.
Mike
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