From: Helmut Hullen on
Hallo, Grant,

Du meintest am 31.07.10:

> Smartctl is fine, short and long (4 hours) test show the disk is
> fine, but it's suffered a reallocated sector and I'd like to wipe it,
> start over.

Samsung?
"smartctl" reports sometimes such a failure especially for Samsung disks
- seems to be a false error.

Viele Gruesse
Helmut

"Ubuntu" - an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

From: Grant on
On 31 Jul 2010 07:15:00 +0200, Helmut(a)Hullen.de (Helmut Hullen) wrote:

>Hallo, Grant,
>
>Du meintest am 31.07.10:
>
>> Smartctl is fine, short and long (4 hours) test show the disk is
>> fine, but it's suffered a reallocated sector and I'd like to wipe it,
>> start over.
>
>Samsung?
>"smartctl" reports sometimes such a failure especially for Samsung disks
>- seems to be a false error.

No, DeathStar:

Model Family: Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B
Device Model: Hitachi HDT721010SLA360
Serial Number: STF607MS1UEBYK
Firmware Version: ST6OA31B
User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Local Time is: Fri Jul 30 14:24:50 2010 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
....
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 016 Pre-fail Always - 0
2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 054 Pre-fail Offline - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 253 253 024 Pre-fail Always - 216 (Average 209)
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 549
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 1
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 020 Pre-fail Offline - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 4800
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 301
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 739
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 739
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 187 187 000 Old_age Always - 32 (Lifetime Min/Max 15/54)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
- - -
Both the short and long offline tests completed without error.

You can see it got warm but not too warm last summer here, the
other numbers seem okay?

HDD came in an Acer Win7 x64 touch screen PC... Since OP it seems
it's not GPT format, I've yet to try other tools that might recognise
the on-disk partition layout.

There's EPT, I don't know what else yet -- take my time and explore,
this is biggest HDD I've played with.

Grant.