smartd reporting disk failing

[Tim]

On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 20:54 -0500, Gabriel Ramirez wrote:
> so a disk with bad sectors can work normally, but if the disk runs out
> from spare sectors well at that moment the disk is bad

Are "spare sectors" special areas of the drive, or merely any space that
you haven't saved data to?

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