Hello, On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 04:27:54PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > OOPS! -w is the destructive test. I now have a hard drive full of 0x00s. > I should have used the -n option. However, it reported no failures.
So has this coaxed the drive into reducing its pending sector count to zero or does that still say 1? I have had drives in the past that never decremented it even though they had clearly done a remap, and others that took a long time (weeks) to get around to doing so. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
