If you have a HDD with pending sector relocations only a tool like this or the manufacturers diagnostic is actually going to make it happen. Until it's done either the drive will hang retrying or will mess up the partition mapping the sector as bad. Once flagged bad on the filesystem it's a bitch to unflagg it.
Also running this in read-only mode is a great way to see the health of a drive. I have a copy setup to boot via PXE over tftp, real handy! On Dec 10, 2011 2:54 PM, "Thane Sherrington" < [email protected]> wrote: > At 06:42 PM 10/12/2011, Greg Sevart wrote: > >> Agreed--going to try that out now on a drive with some high realloc >> sectors. >> Looks like a strong candidate for the standard utility toolbelt. :) >> > > I'm not sure on the whole remapping thing - seems sort of like Spinrite in > that regard, and I figure hard drives are sort of cheap to "repair", but > I'm going to give it a shot. I think have some dying drives at the shop. > > T > >
