Yes, that is correct. Statistically speaking you have a 20% chance that a disk will fail within 3 months of having this particular error. Since you already had (22 - 3) reallocated sectors before this happened, then probability of failure is probably (don't know off top of head) more like 50%. Go shopping. Leave now. -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Scobie Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 2:59 PM To: Linux RAID Mailing List Subject: Re: RAID1 == two different ARRAY in scan, and Q on read error corrected Phil Lobbes wrote: > Here's the requested count: > > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 251 251 063 Pre-fail Always - 22 I'm sure David can give a better interpretation, but as I read it, the drive has failed and reallocated 22 sectors and there are 3 more (Current_Pending_Sector) waiting to be reallocated. I have seen some drives that have reallocated some sectors in a burst and then operated for years without losing any more, but these were the minority. Usually these counts continue to increase over the short term as the drive fails. If the data is important, I would replace it. Regards, Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
