Smartd error

[Timothy Murphy]

Gilboa Davara wrote:

>> Yesterday I got an internal email from smartd telling me
>> of an error on one disk (on my server):
>> ------------------------------
>> Device: /dev/sdb, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
>> ------------------------------

> Unreadable sector == bad sector.
> You might want to look at the smartcrl output.
> 
> E.g. smartctl -a /dev/sda

I did actually run this,
but it didn't really add anything to my knowledge.
It's strange that smartd says a disk has PASSED
at the same time that it says it has an error.
And it seems to give no hint of where the bad sector is.

> In general, if the drive failed to relocate a bad sector (or slowly
> running out of space to relocate sectors to) it should be replaced ASAP.
> If the disk is under warranty, back it up and RMA it.

I am replacing the disk, or at least adding a new disk as replacement.
Unfortunately I think the disk is just out of warranty.



 

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