Palimsest discrepancy

[Dariusz J. Garbowski]

On 30/04/12 11:35 AM, ergodic wrote:
> Has anyone experienced Palimpsest discrepancies?
>
> Palimsest in Fedora 16 reports a disk (MAXTOR STM3320620AS) as failing: "DISK HAS MANY BAD SECTORS" etc.
> SMART: 197 Current pending Sector Count Value -4 sectors.
>
> Palimsest in Fedora 17 beta reports the same disk (MAXTOR STM3320620AS) as "OK"
> SMART: 197 Current pending Sector Count 0 sectors OK.
>
> Obviously one is incorrect, which one?

Try as root:

smartctl -a /dev/sdX

(where X is of course pointing to your disk)

You can also run test of the disk (this is generally non-destructive but if your disk has bad 
sectors doing any operations on it may cause further damage so if you have any data on the disk you 
want to recover... you may want to do create image of the disk first):

smartctl -t short /dev/sdX

Dariusz