diybit wrote:
Be well careful with this drive! because having re-found some bad sectors after all erase/read pass you have done is not promising... and some others may appear later...
Yes, but the disk serves as a third backup and I may never need to use it again.
diybit wrote:
Maybe there are another bad spot that we haven't bypass, or/and perhaps we haven't right bypass because of too small margin finally with 250MB...
Maybe these 8 reallocated sectors are already in the space excluded from partitioning and are due to the scan that the disk does when idle ...
diybit wrote:
I suggest you doing 2 pass of the SMART extended test before unplug for good this drive.
It will indicate you the exact LBA where it stopped for an eventual error, and this time with the internal scan that seems more sensible to detect problems.
Is there any way to query the disk firmware and get the full list of sectors that have been reallocated, perhaps using Smartclt, the disk serial interface, Victoria in PIO mode or any other means ?