Confusing smartd messages

[Eugene Grosbein]

05.07.2018 11:25, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

>>> It would of also been nice if the ata standard would of made a way
>>> to get the LBA of pending sectors so that a very quick rewrite attempt
>>> could be done to fix them.  IIRC this info is avalible, but in a vendor
>>> specific way.
>>
>> "smartctl -t long" reveals LBA of first pending sector.
> 
> That is vendor dependent

Have not seen any exceptions with modern (e.g. last 5 years) HDDs.

> and well only return the pending sector
> if the pending sector fails for most vendors.  It may fix the
> sector if it could read it.

This is first time I hear about fixind sector problem by just reading it.
I believed that only a write can fix it.