On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 13:38:12 +0200, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In other words, you're playing Russian roulette as you cannot know > how long the drive will continue to run even with a growing number of > reallocated sectors. If you decide to keep this drive running, watch > above value carefully, but even if it doesn't increase quickly, there > may be sudden death of this drive. But there can be sudden death without any warning with a chance of the same order of magnitude. Sure if you have lots of money relative to the value of the data it's a good idea to change the drive. For hobbiests it may make more sense to squeeze some more life out of the drive. > > > 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always > > > - 2 > > This is worse than above. It ought to be zero. The internal hard-disk > controller has not reallocated these two sectors yet. Drives typcially won't reallocate bad sectors if they can't get a good read or the operation is a write. This is to give you a chance to recover the data if you want to try. And if you want to spend some effort, you can figure out what files, if any, were using these blocks. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
