smartd reporting disk failing

[Gabriel Ramirez]

On 04/26/2011 06:49 PM, Tim wrote:
> 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?
>

when the hard disk makes the remap by itself, the new sector came from 
reserved sectors from the factory more info in second paragraph 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_sector

Gabriel