On 06/19/2010 08:43 PM, Peter Langfelder was caught red-handed while writing:: > 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 > Well, I am not actively using the disk. Too risky. I am trying to find out if there is reasonable doubt as to what the smartd is reporting as if the are recent errors. At this point I will try to see if it is still under warranty and have it serviced. -- 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
