On 10/16/2010 02:46 AM, Partha Chowdhury wrote: > I have a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 family harddisk of 160gb capacity > which is more than 3 years old. recently I installed gsmartcontrol and > after running it, it showed number of current pending sector count and > offline uncorrectable sectors as -- 4294967295.Fearing the disk going > bad, i backed up data and started monitoring it. This is the latest > gsmartcontrol shows - > http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/5707/201010161300051280x1024.png > > After two weeks, the no. of bad sectors is the same and the disk shows > no sign of failure (at the least there is no problem to read or write > files from or to the disk).hence I am confused .is the disk going bad ? > if it is fine why can't it remap all those bad sectors ? > I have found the smart reporting of seagate barracuda drives to be flaky at best. (but I always back up and monitor as well) I have 4 spinning in 2 dmraid arrays on a backup server, and sometimes it just throws errors. (it has done that for years) Drive info is: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 family Device Model: ST3750330AS Serial Number: 5QK0Q09G Firmware Version: SD1A User Capacity: 750,156,374,016 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4 Local Time is: Sat Oct 16 11:59:51 2010 CDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled There have been a number of firmware changes/updates for seagate drives over the past 3 years and several "bad runs" of disks. Check the seagate support site and make sure you have the latest firmware for your drive. I have had the bad sector errors - sometimes a true failure, sometimes not. Just backup, monitor and if you continue to get the errors, drop of $50 on a new 1T drive. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
