Error message that pops up in terminal windows.

[Steven Stern]

On 07/19/2013 12:16 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> This message shows up in terminal windows from time to time.
> Any ideals on what is doing it and how to correct it.
> 
> WARNING: Your hard drive is failing
> Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Offline uncorrectable sectors
> 
> WARNING: Your hard drive is failing
> Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 2 Offline uncorrectable sectors
> 
> smartctl shows the disk is fine in both short and long test on disk and
> partitions. At one time the machine was reporting all kinds of soft
> errors with smartctl, and I replaced the disk with this new one, and it
> continued to get the soft errors. Then installed a pci sata controller
> instead of the on-board controller, and errors stopped? So, I assumed
> the issue was with the onboard controller, and not the disk, since it
> was brand new, and had put the old disk in another machine, and it also
> has no issues. But the above error messages come up, and I would like to
> correct it, but don't know what comand or program could resolve it.
>   
> 
> 

Please post the output from smartcl -a /dev/sda


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-- Steve