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<p>Andrew,</p>
<p>To add to the good stuff said by Stephen, you may coax one more
read from hard to read sectors with ddrescue.<br>
You need to make an image and save the log file, That requires
another 4Tb of space for the image and some space somewhere else
for the log.<br>
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<p>Run smartctl -x and save the result. Post it if you like.<br>
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<p>Look at the duration for the long test in the output. <br>
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<p>Use smartctl to run the long test. Everything happens inside the
drive, so if you have cable or motherboard problems, they will be
ignored. Wait as least as long as the long test completion takes.<br>
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<p>Run smartctl -x again.</p>
<p>The key things to look at are how much of the test completed, The
Pending Sectors and the Reallocated Sector count. <br>
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<p>The Pending Sector count is the number of sectors that the drive
would like to remap if only it could read them.</p>
<p>Running ddrescue in place, or throwing away recovered data is a
really bad idea. If your drive is on the verge of failing, the
time to run ddrescue may tip it over the edge. <br>
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<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Roy Bamford.<br>
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<div>My 4TB WD SATA HDD has started showing bad blocks.</div>
<div>It has SMART.</div>
<div>How do I configure it, probably with <i>smartctl,</i> to
automatically map the bad blocks when they arise to good ones
elsewhere on the drive?</div>
<div>In addition, if I get a list of bad blocks using <i>badblocks</i>,
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