Disk error??

[Chris Smart]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
>
> You probably want to use smartmontools to get a more detailed status of
> the drive. If there are sectors that need to be reallocated, you can

I'm pretty sure that palimpset can provide more details too, as it
also uses SMART. Anyway, if palimpset says your drive has bad sectors,
then it's because the drive is telling it that it does. So I'd be
inclined to believe it. Back up your data and get a new drive ASAP.

-c