bad HD sectors

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 19 22:50:59 UTC 2010



On 06/19/2010 03:01 PM, Alan Cox was caught red-handed while writing::
> On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:43:19 -0700
> JD<jd1008 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Greetings,
>> I have a 500GB hd which smarts daemon says has 1 re-mapped sector, and
>> 129 bad sectors.
>> How is it possible to have 129 bad sectors, but only 1 re-mapped sector?
>> Did the HD have only 1 spare sector when I purchased it?
>> Is that possible?
>> Drive was purchased brand new in factory sealed box.
>>      
> I expect the smart data is reporting sectors marked bad in testing and
> formatting up before it was sold. All media has some bad sectors that are
> never used.
>    

That's very interesting. When I first had installed
the drive (1.9 years ago), on FC7, I did not have the
smarts daemon running. I only enabled it in FC10 I think
(I cannot recall when I actually turned it on).
I started seeing the problem right away when I had enabled
the smarts daemon.

Assuming what you say is the case, I guess I should ignore
the smarts report until the number of failed sectors rise higher than
129. It has been at 129 for as far as I can recall.

Cheers,

JD


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