On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:57 PM, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is there a way to tell smart daemon to ignore the bad sector list > that comes from the manufacturer? > smartd keep reporting: > messages:Jun 19 16:16:39 localhost smartd[1378]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], > 128 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors > messages:Jun 19 16:16:39 localhost smartd[1378]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], > 128 Offline uncorrectable sectors > > yet I am not seeing any apps reporting read/write errors to this drive. Hmm... I'd be surprised if smart didn't ignore the manufacturer's list of bad sectors. FWIW, I just had a drive develop bad sectors and I replaced it as soon as possible. It started with 1 but quickly spread and some of my data became unreadable. Applications will not find the bad sectors unless they read some data that are actually stored in the bad sectors, and even then they may not complain. You could run one of the disk test utilities to see where the bad sectors are. Or buy an external drive and rsync your whole drive to the external. You will see error messages if some of the data is unreadable. Just my 2 cents. Peter -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
