CurrentPendingSector

[Robert Nichols]

On 05/03/2015 05:40 AM, MegaBrutal wrote:
> Sorry for reviving a thread from the past, but I have a very similar
> problem: my Current_Pending_Sector value is 2, and I get notifications
> about it. I'm wondering whether I should replace the drive. What is
> strange, though, is that when I run a long self-test (smartctl -t long
> /dev/sdc), it reports „Completed without error”. Thus, I can't even
> find the addresses of the faulty sectors – and actually, I question
> the validity of my S.M.A.R.T. values. Either the
> „Current_Pending_Sector” is incorrect (in reality, I have none), or
> the self-test was not efficient enough to find the bad sector.

In this case, your guess is as good as mine.  You could try running
"dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/null bs=256k" and see if you get any read
errors.  Short of saving the data elsewhere and overwriting the
entire drive with zeros, I don't have anything to suggest.

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