Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On Tuesday, July 01, 2014 06:52:10 AM Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 29 Jun 2014 13:05:04 Rich Freeman wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What if I copied data to the drive until it was just about full.  I'm
> > > thinking like maybe 90 or 95% or so.  If I do that and run the test
> > > every few days, would it then catch a error after a few weeks or so of
> > > testing?  I realize no one knows with 100% certainty...
> > 
> > As you already said, nobody knows with 100% certainty.
> > 
> > In the failures I've experienced I'd expect it to start catching
> > errors within a few days.  However, on those drives the relocated
> > sector count never increases, which suggests that the firmware never
> > relocated those sectors when overwritten, which seems brain-dead to
> > me.
> > 
> > If the drive relocates the sectors, then conceivably it could go quite
> > a long time until having errors, probably in an entirely different set
> > of sectors.
> > 
> > Even if it doesn't relocate, the reliability of the bad sectors could
> > be high or low.
> > 
> > Rich
> 
> What triggers a relocation?  I also have a drive which shows a sector
> relocation pending, but for a few days now and after some tests that showed
> no errors, it won't relocate it.

I think a write to that sector should force a relocation.

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Joost