Is SMART really that dumb?

[Roger Heflin]

I have seen my seagate 3tb drive not clear PENDING, not sure of the
exact set of conditions for it to not clear.  After doing something
(booting, running a long test or something) it finally cleared the
pending.

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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