David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Dale wrote: > Yeah. Oh, and I had a "clean" smart until a few days ago, luckily I > alread had a WD Red (WD40EFRX) drive waiting when this attrib jumped > from 0 to: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 087 087 036 Pre-fail Always > 17688 Other Seagates (a few 1.5T drives) have also made me trouble, > the 2T Samsung already relabeled and sold as a Seagate but with > Samsung in the FW though is still ok. [..]
I was wondering about how that would be updated since a lot of that stuff requires windoze. >> I ordered a drive. It should be here tomorrow. In the meantime, I >> shutdown and re-seated all the cables, power too. I got the test running >> again but results is a few hours off yet. It did pass the short test >> tho. I'm not sure that it means much. > Good. Do not use dd, it WILL fail at the first error. Use gnu ddrescue > or dd_rescue to grab an image. I used mc to copy via filesystem, eg. > 'rsync -auxlPRAXSHD /foo/ /bar/' is fine too. Oh, and I hope you > didn't buy a Seagate again ;) > > -dnh > I plan to rsync or cp the data over. The dd part will come into play after I am sure I got everything off that I can get and am just erasing the drive completely. I plan to dd the drive then run the tests again just to see what it is doing. Heck, maybe it will reallocate that area like it should be doing already, I guess. Time will tell. I'll be having fun tomorrow tho. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
