[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-10 Thread GauloisID
Same warnings fro me, palimpset report me 570 reallocated sectors on samsung HM121HI (Dell XPS M1330) -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-10 Thread Steve Beattie
** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu Lucid) Assignee: Canonical Ubuntu QA Team (canonical-qa) = Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-10 Thread Martin Pitt
** Also affects: libatasmart (Fedora) via https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500079 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Package changed: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu Karmic) = libatasmart (Ubuntu Karmic) -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-09 Thread Kees Cook
** Also affects: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu Lucid) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu Karmic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu Karmic) Status: New = Confirmed ** Changed in:

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-09 Thread Kevin Krafthefer
** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu Lucid) Assignee: (unassigned) = Canonical Ubuntu QA Team (canonical-qa) -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-08 Thread Sergey Sventitski
** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Sergey Sventitski (sergey-sventitski) -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-08 Thread Sergey Sventitski
** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Assignee: Sergey Sventitski (sergey-sventitski) = (unassigned) -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-07 Thread Daniele Napolitano
@vwingate: Tha Palimpsest warning is supposed. There is a objective SMART param: Overall Health. This is a param of SMART data that say when hard drive in in pre-fail state (for example my BIOS stop the boot if an hd is in pre-fail state). All disk suites read that parameter to say that the hard

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-05 Thread Justin Dugger
** Attachment added: F:\smartctl.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35190838/F%3A%5Csmartctl.log -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-05 Thread Justin Dugger
A coworker came to me reporting a similar problem. They have an older computer with a newish Seagate Barracuda 160GB. Seagate disk tests I can find suggest the drive is okay, but the smartctl reports show PRE-FAIL and 61 reallocated sectors. ** Attachment added: seagate test log

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-05 Thread Iago Laz
Hello everybody! I think i have the same bug. Just attach my Palimpsest screenshot. ** Attachment added: Palimpsest screenshot http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35201129/Pantallazo-Datos%20SMART.png -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-05 Thread Sean
I have the same issue on a Dell Mini 10v. Samsung HM160HI (160gig 5400rpm SATA 2.5 drive) 250 bad sectors in palimpsest smartctl reports 0 issues running a full test in HUTIL 2.1 (Samsung's low level tester) results in No errors OSX was running on it with no complaints for the last couple

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-04 Thread vwingate
@Daniele Napolitano: I don't understand, you say that SeaTools reads the same data as Palimpsest (S.M.A.R.T. params) and does the same tests. But if that's the case why doesn't SeaTools tell me my drive is failing too? The drive manufacturer's software isn't showing any problems on my drive, but

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-04 Thread Mark Fiedler
Getting same error on dell mini 9 with 4G stec pata vS020.1.0 SSD. This is my second disk as Dell replaced first under warrenty due to false- error message. This is a fresh install using UNR Karmic ext4. Error says SMART status: DISK IS BEING USED OUTSIDE DESIGN PARAMETERS. The error occurs

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-03 Thread vwingate
@p4man: I have a 120GB Maxtor (6Y120L0). Reallocated Sector Count Threshold = 63, Value = 191 sectors, so palimpsest gives me the Disk has many bad sectors warning each time I log in. So I ran the manufacturer's diagnostic tool SeaTools for Windows in Long DST mode which reads each sector, and no

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-03 Thread vwingate
Here is a screenshot of the SeaTools output ** Attachment added: SeaTools Output http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35016985/LongDSTPass.JPG -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-03 Thread Anant
Attached is the output of smartctl and screenshot. Dell XPS 1330 using Samsung HM250JI. an...@anant-laptop:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda6 [sudo] password for anant: smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ ===

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-03 Thread Sharpie1
Similar false positive on Dell Inspiron - Dual Boot - Disk Utility reported bad sectors, neither chkdsk nor the Fujitsu disk utility found anything. Disk Utility warns 1392181251 sectors waiting to be remapped under the Current Pending Sector Count and advises backing up files and replacing

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-03 Thread Eros Zanchetta
Thanks Daniele, I think you're right: in the last 12 hours I performed long tests with smartctl on Linux and HDDScan on Windows and got the exact same results. It's a real bummer though, I bought the drive 10 months ago... Sorry for wasting your time guys. -- palimpsest bad sectors false

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-03 Thread Lee
i too am having this problem on my acer travelmate 2303wlmi Intel celeron 40gb Toshiba drive. every time i boot up palimpsest informs me that i have bad sectors on disk, the disk is failing and needs to be replaced but it still passes! never had this under 9.04 but got it on my first boot of

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-03 Thread Daniele Napolitano
@Eros and @vwingate: I think that your response isn't a false positive, your reallocated sectors value is reasonably low. The long test check all sectors exept reallocated and include the spare area. SeaTools read the same datas of Palimpsest (S.M.A.R.T. params) and do the *same* test, in fact

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-02 Thread Jose Mico
I really have several reallocated sectors in my disk, maybe due to a hit or something. But the point is that the disk is working fine, I've have no data loss, and the number of reallocated sectors is not increasing. The bug is just the warning about inminent failure... I don't think that the disk

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-02 Thread Anant
Same problem on Dell XPS 1330 using Samsung HM250JI. Infact upgraded on two different mahcines which are way older without any errors. Strange that most of them who reported this problem are using Samgsung HD. Is this something to do with this brand of HD ?? Anant -- palimpsest bad sectors

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-02 Thread Daniele Napolitano
In my experience I have one hard disk with 7 reallocated sectors and work fine (obviously). Another case is my friend's computer, Windows has stopped working and after a analysis with Palimpsest Disk Utility (on Ubuntu 9.10 live) I've read up to 250 reallocated damage sectors. So, no false

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-02 Thread P4man
To everyone reporting this as a bug; while its clear there IS a bug (negative relocated sector count, or ppl seeing 65500 relocated sectors), its not clear to be if those people seeing credible values (between 1-300 or so) are blaming this bug incorrectly or not. Please run another smart

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-02 Thread Daniele Napolitano
@P4man: Finally! Thanks for clarification. -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-02 Thread Eros Zanchetta
@p4man: thanks for the clarification. I'd love to help, but I'm not sure how. As I said above I ran SeaTools for Windows' Long Generic Test and it didn't report any problems (you can find the log file in my previous post) while palimpsest reports 466 bad sectors (see attached screenshot). I don't

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-02 Thread Eros Zanchetta
@p4man: thanks for the clarification. I'd love to help, but I'm not sure how. As I said above I ran SeaTools for Windows' Long Generic Test and it didn't report any problems (you can find the log file in my previous post) while palimpsest reports 466 bad sectors (see attached screenshot). I don't

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-02 Thread magoo
Same for me, brand new installation on a system with a specific partition for home directory. Even i have amd64 i prefered to use the 386 version of 9.10. Never occured before and began right after the installation. -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-01 Thread Ramiro Castro
Hi, I can confirm this false positive too. I have a TOSHIBA MK2035GSS. Hope the fix came soon! -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-01 Thread Emile Ong
Yup, same problem here. Seagate 1500.11. CHKDSK /R reports no problems. Nor does SeaTools. Palimpsest reports 55 bad sectors. -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs,

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-01 Thread kon_nos
Hi, I also confirm this false positive. I have a HP G7000. -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-11-01 Thread s.ketrat
same on my HP 6510b with Hiatchi drives sk -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-31 Thread bhuvi
I too get this message in my new karmic installation. -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-31 Thread bhuvi
** Attachment added: Screenshot-SMART Data.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34794631/Screenshot-SMART%20Data.png -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-31 Thread Alan Burbol
I have this issue as well; fresh install, 9.10 release, amd64, Dell Inspiron 1521 dual booting with Windows 7. At first, I though this message had something to do with Windows 7 (perhaps Win7 does crazy things with disk partitions?). Glad to see it's actually -not- Microsoft's fault this time. **

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-30 Thread inigmatus
see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8193949 for more examples of potential false positives. -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-30 Thread peersi
I have the same problem - ATA Maxtor 6Y16OPO 164 Gig drive ID 5 - Normalised 110, Worst 100, Threshold 63, Value 1447 sectors All other ID's no errors it makes bootup considerably slower than under 9.04 -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-30 Thread Eros Zanchetta
Same here on my fresh Karmic installation (x86_64), using a Seagate Barracuda ST31500341AS. I also tried the 32 bit version of Karmic and got the the same results. I ran SeaTools for Windows' Long Generic test' to confirm that the drive was OK and it passed the test (see attached log file) so I

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-30 Thread BRY
I don't have enough hardware knowledge to say for sure that my Many bad sectors is true, but I have been using the disk for a long time now, without problem. I saw this error message when using the Live CD also. -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-30 Thread mercutio22
Or maybe some OEMs are issuing refurbished hard drives inside their brand new PCs. Wild. -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-30 Thread Amarendra Kumar
same error though got nothing with other tools in windows like HDDLife and HDDHealth etc and I have been using it really good since Sep 2007. -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-30 Thread Angel Aguilera
Same error in a DELL XPS M1330 with an ATA SAMSUNG HM400LI hard disk drive. -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in ubuntu. --

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-29 Thread neclepsio
I have the same problem with a Hitachi disk, counting 458798 bad sectors. Every other parameter is ok. -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-29 Thread greyor
I have this problem as well, which was quite alarming just after I'd installed 9.10 on my laptop. It's a Dell Inspiron 1525n that I've had a little over a year -- and Palimpsest counts 858 bad sectors. The reallocated sectors count is 68295. The drive is a ~120Gb Samsung HM121HI. I highly doubt

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-28 Thread Jose Mico
I think that I'm also have a false positive with an Hitachi Travelstar disk on a HP530 notebook, fresh Ubuntu 9.10. Palimsest warns about inminent failure, even when current value of Reallocated_Sector_Ct (100) is way far form threshold (005): 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-28 Thread Jose Mico
Most people with six-digit reallocated sectors seems to be using Hiatchi drives. Could be possible that raw value is not really the bad sector count for these drives? -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-27 Thread Mārtiņš Barinskis
I can confirm the false-positive issue on my Dell XPS M1530 with Samsung HM250JI hard drive. The Disk Utility warns me about 'bad sectors' all the time however testing it using HDD manufacturer's diagnostic tools (http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/support/utilities/Support_HUTIL.html)

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-26 Thread Gerald Jansen
Confirm. I get a reallocated sector count of 65551 on my Hitachi HTS541680J9SA00, very similar to the value 65543 reported by Tapas Bose. Note 2**16 = 65536. -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-26 Thread Lonnie
I have no clue if there are bad sectors or not; All I know is the machine is running fine, and previous versions of Ubuntu don't notify me of bad sectors, for what that is worth. See attached screen shot for hard drive model, etc. ** Attachment added: Screenshot-Sysinfo.png

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-26 Thread Lonnie
see additional attachment ** Attachment added: Screenshot-SMART Data.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34438613/Screenshot-SMART%20Data.png -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-24 Thread Tapas Bose,India
Hallo everybody. I think this is a bug. Palimpest and GSmartControl give me report that I have bad sectors in my hard disk. Please see the attachments. ** Attachment added: Screenshot-1.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34314958/Screenshot-1.png -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-24 Thread Tapas Bose,India
** Attachment added: GSmartControl Report http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34315018/Hitachi_HTS542516K9A300-2009-10-24.txt -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-22 Thread yareckon
Hi guys, I have a 3 month old samsung ssd, which has 2179072 reallocated sectors (probably due to flash wear levelling on the drive as I have 0 uncorrectable sector count and 0 Realocation count ). I get yelled at every time I log into karmic that my drive is failing. The reallocated sector

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-12 Thread Georg
Would be a good option to let the user override certain reported values until the value goes up the next time. Then one wouldn't be bugged by Palimpsest on every boot but only if the disk degrades further. -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-07 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
These 2 bugs are probably related: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506254 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498115 ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #506254 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506254 ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #498115

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-07 Thread Alan Pope
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 412152 gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 412152 gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-07 Thread Tim
palimpsest seems to check the raw value against the threshold for reallocated sectors. All other smart utilities seem to check the normalised value against the threshold. This seems to be more logical, however the developer of palimpsest seems to think the first behavior is correct as noted by

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-10-03 Thread J. J. Ramsey
Looks like I have a false positive as well. Now Palimpsest is reporting the correct raw value for the reallocated sector count, which in my case is 3268608. However, I have two reasons for thinking that Palimpsest is reporting the wrong conclusions from this wrong value. First, it appears that a

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-09-30 Thread Matthew Murphy
I can confirm. Suffering from the same issue in 9.10 where Palimpsest is saying my Hitachi HTS541680J9SA00 has many bad sectors. Reallocated Sector Count. Pops it up every time I restart the computer. -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-09-28 Thread Benjamin Drung
** Attachment added: smartctl.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32604205/smartctl.log ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32604206/Dependencies.txt -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug

[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

2009-09-28 Thread Benjamin Drung
** Attachment added: palimpsest-screenshot.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32604239/palimpsest-screenshot.png -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is