re-mapping an older disk ??

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:25:01 -0500
William Case <billlinux at rogers.com> wrote:

> Hi;
> 
> I have some hard disk problems, every thing I try just keeps digging a
> deeper hole.
> SMART Data
> 
> Disk HAS MANY BAD SECTORS
> Backup all data and replace the disk
> 
> Current Pending Sector Count
> Number of sectors waiting to be remapped

Is this 'palimpset' from Fedora or a diagnostic tool ? The Fedora
graphical one seems to have a bee in its bonnet about certain values that
don't always mean problems.

If its the former then ask smartctl for a diagnosis

smartctl -Hc /dev/whatever

and you should get a 

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

in which case the drive thinks its happy.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/monitoring-hard-disks-smart?page=0,1

might be useful