On 09/17/2011 04:17 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> I think the latest imbitations (cf. etymology of "incarnation") of
> Ubuntu use Palimpsest disk utility which monitors disks for bad sectors
> and other impending disasters. I recently found that it reliably
> reported a disk that was about to fail; to the point that Seagate
> replaced it under warranty (after additional tests). Whether Palimpsest
> is capable of invoking other utilities to repair the disk is a question
> I don't have an answer for.

Your comments caused me to do some deeper Googling. I found a number of 
places talking about a bug causing this error message. I decided to 
choose "I" to ignore the error and keep going. I got the same message 
for each partition on the system. I "I"gnored them all and the machine 
finished booting. I'm writing this message on it, now.

I guess I won't know for sure until I try booting it again -- which will 
happen in a few minutes when I move the box off the desk and put it back 
in it's normal home.

Thanks for the prompt.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens


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