ECC Corrected, Realloc Events, Seek Errors, etc. in Spinrite 6

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I am running SpinRite 6 on a dying hard drive. What do all these terms mean on the SMART Monitor screen?

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Scroll to the bottom of this page...http://www.grc.com/sroverview.htm.. if the info is not in any of those links, contact the author Steve Gibson. — Moab, Feb 27 '11 at 20:39
^ Thanks but the site doesn't list any info about it. I'll look into contacting the author. — ctzdev, Feb 27 '11 at 20:58

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 07 '13 at 15:36

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It looks like those are abbreviations of S.M.A.R.T. attribute names.

edited Dec 07 '13 at 15:36

Peter Mortensen

answered Feb 28 '11 at 03:23

Moab

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 27 '11 at 22:21

My guess:

ECC Corrected - The sector was read multiple times and was recovered by combining the different results.
Realloc Events - Sectors that were reallocated elsewhere.
Seek Errors - Sectors that could not be reached (the seek failed)
Recal Retries - How many attempts to recalibrate were made.
Cabling Errors - Errors due to the interference (noise in the cables?)
Uncorrectable - Sectors that could not be recovered
Write Errors - Sectors that gave an error when written (Spinrite --depending on the configured mode-- first reads the sector, then writes it again, making sure it's still in good health)

With ECC you should not need to read multiple times. Assuming single/few bit errors you can correct with a single reading. FOr a very simple example how corrections occur see [this](http://superuser.com/questions/381875/ecc-registered-vs-ecc-unbuffered). — Hennes, Dec 07 '13 at 16:36

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