I did the following with MHDD:

1. >erase

2. Scan with the erase delays option

3. then Scan with the remap option.

But still the same problem!!

Here's the SMART values:

[PRE]HDD: Maxtor 6E030L0; FW: NAR61590; SN: E191EG1E
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Name Val Worst Raw
Att # 3 : Spin up time : 223 222 9233
Att # 4 : Number of spin-up times : 253 253 373
Att # 5 : Reallocated sectors count : 253 253 0
Att # 6 : Read channel margin : 253 253 0
Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 253 252 0
Att # 8 : Seek time performance : 251 239 58684
Att # 9 : Power-on time : 248 248 45845
Att # 10 : Spin-up retries : 253 252 0
Att # 11 : Calibration retries : 253 252 0
Att # 12 : Start/stop count : 252 252 449
Att # 99 : Unknown : 253 253 0
Att # 100 : Unknown : 253 253 0
Att # 101 : Unknown : 253 253 0
Att # 192 : Power-off retract count : 253 253 338
Att # 193 : Load/unload cycle count : 253 253 1315
Att # 194 : HDA Temperature : 253 253 38
Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 253 252 781
Att # 196 : Reallocate event count : 253 253 0
Att # 197 : Current pending sectors : 253 253 0
Att # 198 : Offline scan UNC sectors : 253 253 0
Att # 199 : Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate : 199 199 0
Att # 200 : Write error rate : 253 252 0
Att # 201 : Unknown : 253 223 4
Att # 202 : Unknown : 253 252 0
Att # 203 : Unknown : 253 252 0
Att # 204 : Unknown : 253 252 0
Att # 205 : Unknown : 253 252 0
Att # 207 : Unknown : 253 252 0
Att # 208 : Unknown : 253 252 0
Att # 209 : Unknown : 190 186 0
[/PRE]

So what is the problem?
Post the log of scan please...

Would that be in MHDD.LOG?

The problem I'm having is some brown blocks. They didn't get remapped despite the reallocated sectors not being exausted!!

The problem is also strange, I actually notice delays when writing the drive more than when reading the drive!! That's even when SMART isn't reporting a write error in the write error rate attribute!!


I get noticable major delays in Maxtor PowerMax when writing zeroes to the HDD. It's pausing sometimes up to one second, I can notice the pauses when watching the LBA counter!!

Also, when I use the erase command in MHDD, it slows down to 63 KB/s in some spots, according to MHDD, even when in UDMA mode!! Definitely appears to be bad spots!!

In this case I would suggest to get rid of this drive because MHDD (as well as any other software) most likely will not be able to fix it...

Why? What to you think the problem is caused by?

Now, this is strange, Victoria finds bad sectors when MHDD didn't. But it seems to not find bad sectors when telling it to remap. It did find bad sectors when using the erase 256 sector option in Victoria.

Should I just write zeroes to the HDD and try again?

That HDD is long gone now!

Two Mays ago, I took it apart after it starting clicking and the BIOS failed to detect it. Has been put into the garbage a good while ago.