On Tuesday 06 November 2007 18:15, Fernando Costa wrote: > Hi all, > > Some days ago I began to receive the following message: "Your hard > disk drive is failing! S.M.A.R.T. message: Device: /dev/sda, 1 > currently unreadable (pending) sector" ...
I would like to get some authoritative and definitive information about the specific meaning of this warning. I'm a bit skeptical about the dire warnings that these messages mean the drive is near the end of its useful life. I have a drive that has only been in operation a few months (and it's been a few months of very light use, at that) that is giving me a couple of similar error messages: Device: /dev/sda, 2 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Device: /dev/sda, 2 Offline uncorrectable sectors All the other SMART output is routine bookkeeping or temperature change notifications. I have no other overt indications of problems with this drive. If it's relevant, this is an excerpt from the drive's "hwinfo" output: Model: "WDC WD1500ADFD-0" Vendor: "WDC" Device: "WD1500ADFD-0" Revision: "20.0" Serial ID: "WD-WMAP41210940" Driver: "ata_piix", "sd" Driver Modules: "ata_piix" Device File: /dev/sda Geometry (Logical): CHS 18241/255/63 Size: 293046768 sectors a 512 bytes Geometry (BIOS EDD): CHS 290721/16/63 Size (BIOS EDD): 293046768 sectors Geometry (BIOS Legacy): CHS 1024/255/63 Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #17 (IDE interface) What precisely do these SMART diagnostics mean? How can I get a more detailed diagnosis or possibly remap the defective sectors? Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
