Is SMART really that dumb?

[Ian Pilcher]

On 03/14/2015 06:56 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 16:42:37 -0600
> Chris Murphy wrote:
>
>> If there's a definite latent sector error, this shows up with a
>> 'smarctl -t long' which will be aborted at the first error found. The
>> LBA for this shows up under LBA_of_first_error.
>
> I actually ran one of those when I first started seeing the
> messages (I've got another going now), and the prev test results were:
>
> # 2  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%     17259         -
>
> So that lonely '-' out there apparently says there is no
> LBA with an error, the overall health assessment says PASSED,
> yet these have been showing up every half our or so for a week
> now:

I may be imagining things, but ISTR reading about a smartd configuration
option for drives that don't clear their pending remap count when they
remap a sector.  It may be that you have such a drive.

(Or it may the the drugs.)

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