On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 07:21:26PM -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote: > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 197 197 140 Pre-fail Always - 19 > 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 192 190 000 Old_age Always - 86 > off until now. 6 and 7 are from when I first noticed > Current_Pending_Sector was nonzero, maybe a month or two ago. 8 is from > my post in July. 9 and 10 are from when the drive was new. > 1) The SMART health status is PASSED. Just like every other failed drive > I've had... Don't look at that alone. > 2) None of the attributes are failed. I consider > 0 on Current_Pending_Sector or Reallocated_Sector_Ct to be failing. > 3) By the time the self tests start failing, it is too late, you are > already losing data. If Current_Pending_Sector or Reallocated_Sector_Ct increases > 0, replace the drive immediately. > We can not trust the drive to assess itself properly. If we ever get a > SMART desktop alert thing going, we MUST look directly at the > attributes, and come to our own conclusion. Yes, we should consider any drive to be failed if it gets any pending or reallocated sectors. > Any questions before I RMA the drive? Why did you wait until you had many pending/reallocated sectors before RMAing it instead of RMAing it as soon as you had 1 bad sector? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
