"Paul Rubin" <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message news:7xejnsivx1.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com
> "Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply-to@myweb.nl> writes:
> > > I'd say write over the drive and use the SMART interface to detect
> > > whether the HDD finds any bad sectors.
> >
> > Nonsense, aren't you a regular here?
> > You don't need to do that to 'find' any. Bad sectors that are to be reassigned
> > by writes will already be known as candidate bad sectors and logged as such
> > under "Current Pending Sector Count". If there aren't any, none will be reas-
> > signed by writing. To detect any new you need to read the drive, not write it.

> These drives apparently hadn't been in use (or at least written to)
> for a while. It is possible that bad sectors developed while the drive
> was sitting on the shelf. I've certainly taken working drives out of
> service, then had them fail when I tried using them a year or two later.

You didn't understand a word of what is written above, don't you, Rubin.

Do I have to repeat it for you: *They won't show with only writing*.
*To detect any new you need to read the drive, not write it.*