Samsung SP0411N/R - Hutil - MCFS Fail

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Good morning/afternoon/evening Everyone,

I was wondering if some of the more experienced of you could take a look at the following forum topic of mine on HddGuru and could answer my unanswered questions on this forum if you don't have a HddGuru account.

http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28988

Would using the ERASE or Low Level Format features of MHDD or Hutil recover the usability of the S.MA.R.T. features of the Hard Drive?

Thanks, Michael.
 
I've also been wondering if I could "partition around the problem" so that that part of the disk can't be used?

Thanks,
 
For a modern HDD something like low-level format does no longer exist or it is at least not something a user can do. Traditionally this rewrote the tracks on the disks, but today this is done once at the factory and trying to do this yourself would probably decalibrate the drive. What you can do is to completely overwrite the disk (some tools refer to this as low-level format, but it is not the same). This should clear the invalid data in all sectors (data not matching to its checksum) and reallocate all unwriteable sectors unless the drive has already exhausted its block reserve. A full (i.e. not quick) format with Windows should suffice. Under linux you could use 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4M oflag=direct', replacing sda with the proper device.

I wonder about the SMART errors you see. This should not happen even with damaged sectors. It is entirely possible that smartctl has a problem with the controller and the drive is actually fine in that regard. I would suggest to try CrystalDiskInfo under Windows, as the Windows drivers for exotic controllers are sometimes better. If you cannot solve this I would just dispose of the drive and not entrust any even remotely important data to it again.
 
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omniscence said:
For a modern HDD something like low-level format does no longer exist or it is at least not something a user can do. Traditionally this rewrote the tracks on the disks, but today this is done once at the factory and trying to do this yourself would probably decalibrate the drive. What you can do is to completely overwrite the disk (some tools refer to this as low-level format, but it is not the same). This should clear the invalid data in all sectors (data not matching to its checksum) and reallocate all unwriteable sectors unless the drive has already exhausted its block reserve. A full (i.e. not quick) format with Windows should suffice. Under linux you could use 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4M oflag=direct', replacing sda with the proper device.

I wonder about the SMART errors you see. This should not happen even with damaged sectors. It is entirely possible that smartctl has a problem with the controller and the drive is actually fine in that regard. I would suggest to try CrystalDiskInfo under Windows, as the Windows drivers for exotic controllers are sometimes better. If you cannot solve this I would just dispose of the drive and not entrust any even remotely important data to it again.
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Hi,

The PC was purchased in 2008. The Hard Drive (IDE) has a date of 2005.10 on its label.

The manual I have for Samsung's Hutil has 2002 as the Copyright year. It lists the ERASE HDD function as being able to perform "0-write or low level format". The options available for ERASE HDD are PROCESS, ERASE MBR, ERASE THE ENTIRE AREA and LOW LEVEL FORMAT. PROCESS has 2 TARGET options which are TARGET LBA and TARGET SIZE.

MHDD reported 1 LBA as having an error. Would the TARGET LBA option allow you to select just 1 LBA to write 0s to?

Would the ERASE THE ENTIRE AREA option perform a 0-write to the whole disk?

If so, I am thinking that the LOW LEVEL FORMAT could be the traditional low-level format that you have referred to?

I had already used CrystalDiskInfo and sent the results to the person who is responsible for that software but never received a response. See below.

Code: 
00000000 CreateMutex
00004391 AfxOleInit()
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00012391 AfxOleGetMessageFilter()->EnableNotRespondingDialog(FALSE)
00014438 AfxOleGetMessageFilter()->EnableBusyDialog(FALSE)
00017250 CDialogCx::CDialogCx
00019016 CMainDialog::CMainDialog
00020563 CDiskInfoDlg::CDiskInfoDlg
00021547 CDiskInfoDlg::CDiskInfoDlg
00022360 dlg.DoModal()
00023969 InitAta
00025235 CAtaSmart::Init WMI on - Start
00026563 CoInitializeSecurity()
00028657 CoCreateInstance()
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00033391 OK:WMI Init
00036938 OK:Win32_IDEController
00037969 OK:Win32_SCSIController
00038532 --ControllerMap--
 + VIA Serial ATA Controller - 3149 [ATA]
   - Canal IDE principal (0)
   - Canal IDE secundario (1)
 + VIA Bus Master IDE Controller - 0571 [ATA]
   + Canal IDE principal (0)
     - SAMSUNG SP0411N/R
   + Canal IDE secundario (1)
     - HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8527B

00045969 OK:Win32_USBController
00047407 WakeUp(0)
00048532 FAILED: CC_CSMI_SAS_GET_DRIVER_INFO
00050188 FAILED: CC_CSMI_SAS_GET_DRIVER_INFO
00053625 FAILED: CC_CSMI_SAS_GET_DRIVER_INFO
00054157 FAILED: CC_CSMI_SAS_GET_DRIVER_INFO
00054610 DO:SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive
00055063 OK1:SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive
00056672 while(pEnumCOMDevs ...
00057813 diskSize:40057113600
00059032 deviceId:\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0
00060922 model:SAMSUNG SP0411N/R
00062250 mediaType:Fixed	hard disk media
00063047 interfaceTypeWmi:IDE
00064047 pnpDeviceId:IDE\DISKSAMSUNG_SP0411N/R_______________________TW100-13\30534244314A5930314138373536202020202020
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00083703 GetSmartAttributePd(0) - 2
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00088422 OK:qsort
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00180235 OK:GetDiskInfo - Scsi
00180422 Drive Letter Mapping - Start
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00180828 Drive Letter Mapping - != DRIVE_FIXED
00181078 B:\
00181313 Drive Letter Mapping - != DRIVE_FIXED
00182891 C:\
00183703 \\.\C:
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CrystalDiskInfoForSamsungSP0411N-R.jpg


The disk is divided into 2 partitions. It is the first (and only) Primary Partition that has the bad sectors. The second (extended - 1 logical within) partition is free of bad sectors.

I was beginning to wonder if this Hard Drive properly supports S.M.A.R.T. features.

Well, when searching for such details, I discovered the gnome-disk-utility (palimpsest) and installed it to the Live USB Flash Drive on which I installed antiX-MX14. Lo and behold, it retrieved some S.M.A.R.T. details for me and reports the SMART Status as "Disk is being used outside design parameters".

When I clicked on the "SMART Data (View SMART data and run self-tests)" option, another window was opened to show the SMART Data which it actually managed to retrieve it appears.

Powered On was reported as "Unknown".
Temperature was reported as "Unknown".
Self Assessment was reported as "Passed".
Self-tests was reported as "Completed OK".
Power Cycles was reported as "Unknown".
Bad Sectors was reported as "Unknown".
Overall Assessment was reported as "Backup all data and replace the disk".

There are 12 reports for Attributes as follows.
Code: 
ID	Attribute				Assessment		Value
16	attribute-16				N/A			Normalized: 0
	No description for attribute 16					Worst:      16
									Threshold:  0
									Value:      N/A

32	attribute-32				N/A			Normalized: N/A
	No description for attribute 32					Worst:      N/A
									Threshold:  32
									Value:      N/A

			Next 2 entries in Red
32	attribute-32				Failing			Normalized: 32
	No description for attribute 32					Worst:      32
									Threshold:  32
									Value:      N/A
								
32	attribute-32				Failing			Normalized: 32
	No description for attribute 32					Worst:      32
									Threshold:  32
									Value:      N/A
								
45	attribute-45				Good			Normalized: 49
	No description for attribute 45					Worst:      65
									Threshold:  48
									Value:      N/A

			Next entry in Red
80	attribute-80				Failing			Normalized: 48
	No description for attribute 80					Worst:      49
									Threshold:  83
									Value:      N/A

89	attribute-89				Good			Normalized: 65
	No description for attribute 89					Worst:      56
									Threshold:  48
									Value:      N/A

			Next entry in Red
105	attribute-105				Failed in the past	Normalized: 90
	No description for attribute 105				Worst:      3
									Threshold:  60
									Value:      N/A

169	attribute-169				N/A			Normalized: 0
	No description for attribute 169				Worst:      7
									Threshold:  4
									Value:      N/A

240	Head Flying Hours			N/A			Normalized: N/A
	Time while head is positioning					Worst:      N/A
									Threshold:  0
									Value:      N/A

			Next entry in Red
255	attribute-255				Failed in the past	Normalized: 200
	No description for attribute 255				Worst:      16
									Threshold:  63
									Value:      N/A
									
255	attribute-255				N/A			Normalized: N/A
	No description for attribute 255				Worst:      N/A
									Threshold:  63
									Value:      N/A

Except for Attribute 240, I haven't been able to find what the other attributes represent.

The above window has 2 options which are Refresh and Run Self-test.

I clicked on Run Self-test first and selected the Extended option. Nothing changed. I then selcted the Conveyance option. Nothing changed.

Nothing changed using the Refresh option.

So, I will see if there is a forum for the gnome-disk-utility (palimpsest) and, if so, I will ask there if anyone knows what the attributes are that have no description. And then I'll see if Samsung has a forum for these problems.

Other than that, unless others have other advice to give, my plan will be to try the following.

Run chkdsk /f from Windows XP
Retest
Use Hutil to try to write 0s to the 1 bad LBA
Retest
Use Hutil to try to write 0s to the whole disk using the ERASE THE ENTIRE AREA option
Retest
Use Hutil to try to Format the disk using the LOW LEVEL FORMAT option
Retest

Thanks and hasta pronto,
 
Here's some more interesting diagnostic data.

I was curious to see what would happen if I put the drive in MY desktop computer and then use the the gnome-disk-utility (palimpsest).

My desktop computer has an ASUS A7N8X Motherboard for which the B.I.O.S. makes no references to S.M.A.R.T unlike the computer, that the drive belongs to, which has a PC Chips P21G V3.1 motherboard.

When I first start the gnome-disk-utility, after my computer is started, it reports the following but if I then click on either the Refresh or Run Self-test options it reports the same as for the PC Chips P21G V3.1 motherboard and continues to do so until the computer is restarted. Each time the computer is started/restarted the gnome-disk-utility shows the following the first it is used.

Code: 
ID      Attribute                               Assessment              Value
6       Read Channel Margin                     N/A                     Normalized: 0
        Margin of a channel while reading data                          Worst:      2
                                                                        Threshold:  N/A
                                                                        Value:      N/A

10      Spinup Retry Count                      N/A                     Normalized: 255
        Number of retry attempts to spin up                             Worst:      168
                                                                        Threshold:  60
                                                                        Value:      228732778381319

16      attribute-16                            N/A                     Normalized: 0
        No description for attribute 16                                 Worst:      16
                                                                        Threshold:  0
                                                                        Value:      N/A

32      attribute-32                            N/A                     Normalized: N/A
        No description for attribute 32                                 Worst:      N/A
                                                                        Threshold:  32
                                                                        Value:      N/A

                        Next 4 entries in Red
32      attribute-32                            Failing                 Normalized: 32
        No description for attribute 32                                 Worst:      84
                                                                        Threshold:  32
                                                                        Value:      N/A

32      attribute-32                            Failing                 Normalized: 32
        No description for attribute 32                                 Worst:      32
                                                                        Threshold:  32
                                                                        Value:      N/A

32      attribute-32                            Failing                 Normalized: 32
        No description for attribute 32                                 Worst:      32
                                                                        Threshold:  32
                                                                        Value:      N/A

32      attribute-32                            Failing                 Normalized: 32
        No description for attribute 32                                 Worst:      32
                                                                        Threshold:  32
                                                                        Value:      N/A

32      attribute-32                            N/A                     Normalized: 0
        No description for attribute 32                                 Worst:      182
                                                                        Threshold:  32
                                                                        Value:      N/A

                        Next 3 entries in Red
80      attribute-80                            Failed in the past      Normalized: 0
        No description for attribute 80                                 Worst:      7
                                                                        Threshold:  9
                                                                        Value:      N/A

83      attribute-83                            Failing                 Normalized: 32
        No description for attribute 83                                 Worst:      32
                                                                        Threshold:  81
                                                                        Value:      N/A

105     attribute-105                           Failed in the past      Normalized: 60
        No description for attribute 105                                Worst:      3
                                                                        Threshold:  52
                                                                        Value:      N/A

240     Head Flying Hours                       N/A                     Normalized: N/A
        Time while head is positioning                                  Worst:      N/A
                                                                        Threshold:  0
                                                                        Value:      N/A

254     attribute-254                           N/A                     Normalized: 0
        No description for attribute 254                                Worst:      125
                                                                        Threshold:  N/A
                                                                        Value:      N/A

                        Next entry in Red
255     attribute-255                           Failed in the past      Normalized: 200
        No description for attribute 255                                Worst:      16
                                                                        Threshold:  63
                                                                        Value:      N/A

Is anyone able to explain why?

Thanks,
 
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