Drive still usable if Seatools reports errors?
- by Rob
I have a Seagate 3TB Expansion Desktop drive that was part of a Linux RAID 6 array that failed.
I eventually did a zero fill both through Seagate DiscWizard and via Linux dd, neither reported errors.
When I ran Seatools now, I got:
Short DST - Started 5/31/2014 10:04:36 PM
Short DST - Pass 5/31/2014 10:05:37 PM
Long Generic - Started 5/31/2014 10:15:19 PM
Bad LBA: 518242762 Not Repaired
(whole bunch of bad LBAs ommited)
Bad LBA: 518715255 Not Repaired
Long Generic Aborted 6/1/2014 3:12:18 AM
i.e. the short test passed, the long test failed.
Unfortunately, the drive is out of warranty, so I can't just RMA it. But I hate tossing a drive that can still be used.
So, my questions are:
If the zero fill succeeded, and the short test passed, can I still use the whole drive?
if not, since I'm using LVM on top of RAID, is there a way to tell either of these to just skip the bad area?
If not the above, can I just create partitions before and after the part of the drive with the bad LBAs?