SpinRite

[lcoughey]

Thanks for the link

[fzabkar]

When it comes to mOLD and btec sectors on SMR Seagates, that actually may save a client's data from Spinrite, assuming that every read is with a long timeout. If under 500ms, those sectors will report as bad, rather than give garbage data.

I can confirm that a Rosewood ST2000LM015-2E81 produced "moLD" sectors during cloning by ddrescue.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug- ... 00004.html

The author contacted me privately to confirm my suspicions.