bad HD sectors

[Kam Leo]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Peter Langfelder
<peter.langfelder at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:04 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>
>> Well, I am not actively using the disk. Too risky.
>> I am trying to find out if there is reasonable doubt
>> as to what the smartd is reporting as if the are recent
>> errors.
>> At this point I will try to see if it is still
>> under warranty and have it serviced.
>
> You may want to consider using fsck to check for bad sectors within
> your filesystem(s). This will definitely not report bad sectors that
> were marked as such by the manufacturer. But it may take more time
> than finding out whether smart reports them.
>
> Peter


You don't have to take smartd's word about the health of your drive.
Run the manufacturer's diagnostic.