Re: SATA hdd refuses to reallocate a sector?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

You know, either the "long" or the "offline" SMART test routines do exactly
that on any spinning rust device with a firmware that is not utterly broken.

The HDD's firmware will rewrite, and even reallocate any "weak" sectors
found by the surface scan.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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