Low-level format an SATA-drive?

[Artem Belevich]

Is it ST3000DM0001 by any chance? Those 3TB  Seagate Barracudas were known
to have *very* high failure rates.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/



On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Mikhail T. <mi+thun at aldan.algebra.com>
wrote:

> On 03.12.2017 20:19, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>> I say maybe in both cases because it's a crapshoot once drives get bad
>> enough to start throwing bad sectors back to the OS. Modern HDD will remap
>> bad sectors on rewrite
>>
>
> Thanks for the prompt reply. It is a 3Tb Seagate Barracuda. And it is not
> throwing bad sectors, it seems worse:
>
>    ahcich4: Timeout on slot 6 port 0
>    ahcich4: is 00000000 cs 00000040 ss 00000000 rs 00000040 tfd d0 serr
>    00000000 cmd 0000c617
>    ahcich4: AHCI reset: device not ready after 31000ms (tfd = 00000080)
>    ahcich4: Timeout on slot 7 port 0
>    ahcich4: is 00000000 cs 00000080 ss 00000000 rs 00000080 tfd 80 serr
>    00000000 cmd 0000c017
>    (aprobe0:ahcich4:0:0:0): ATA_IDENTIFY. ACB: ec 00 00 00 00 40 00 00
>    00 00 00 00
>    (aprobe0:ahcich4:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout
>    (aprobe0:ahcich4:0:0:0): Retrying command
>    ahcich4: Timeout on slot 13 port 0
>    ahcich4: is 00000000 cs 00002000 ss 00000000 rs 00002000 tfd d0 serr
>    00000000 cmd 0000cd17
>    ahcich4: AHCI reset: device not ready after 31000ms (tfd = 00000080)
>    ahcich4: Timeout on slot 14 port 0
>    ahcich4: is 00000000 cs 00004000 ss 00000000 rs 00004000 tfd 80 serr
>    00000000 cmd 0000c017
>    (aprobe0:ahcich4:0:0:0): ATA_IDENTIFY. ACB: ec 00 00 00 00 40 00 00
>    00 00 00 00
>    (aprobe0:ahcich4:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout
>    (aprobe0:ahcich4:0:0:0): Retrying command
>
> Yours,
>
>    -mi
>
>
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