Re: Apparently conflicting smartctl output

2012-01-06 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Bas Smeelen wrote: I have had this with a drive and multiple read errors would not remap the sector. With write errors the sector would be remapped. This was a new Samsung laptop drive though, not a Western Digital. That's standard. Sectors are only remapped to spares on

Re: Apparently conflicting smartctl output

2012-01-06 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 01/06/2012 03:39 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Bas Smeelen wrote: I have had this with a drive and multiple read errors would not remap the sector. With write errors the sector would be remapped. This was a new Samsung laptop drive though, not a Western Digital. That's

Re: Apparently conflicting smartctl output

2012-01-06 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 01/06/2012 03:39 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Bas Smeelen wrote: I have had this with a drive and multiple read errors would not remap the sector. With write errors the sector would be remapped. This was a new Samsung laptop drive

Re: Apparently conflicting smartctl output

2012-01-06 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 01/06/2012 04:37 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 01/06/2012 03:39 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Bas Smeelen wrote: I have had this with a drive and multiple read errors would not remap the sector. With write errors the sector would be

Re: Apparently conflicting smartctl output

2012-01-06 Thread Janos Dohanics
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:56:44 -0800 Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 5, 2012, at 11:42 AM, Janos Dohanics wrote: - Do I have a bad hard drive (apparently, I do...) - Why are there No Errors Logged by smartctl? You've probably got a bad sector on the drive, anyway. The SMART

Re: Apparently conflicting smartctl output

2012-01-06 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 01/06/2012 04:37 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 01/06/2012 03:39 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Bas Smeelen wrote: I have had this with a drive and multiple read errors would not remap the sector.

Re: Apparently conflicting smartctl output

2012-01-06 Thread Bas Smeelen
On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 12:32:14 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 01/06/2012 04:37 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 01/06/2012 03:39 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Bas Smeelen wrote:

Re: Apparently conflicting smartctl output

2012-01-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 5, 2012, at 11:42 AM, Janos Dohanics wrote: - Do I have a bad hard drive (apparently, I do...) - Why are there No Errors Logged by smartctl? You've probably got a bad sector on the drive, anyway. The SMART error log is a funny thing governed by various drive's firmware which have

Re: Apparently conflicting smartctl output

2012-01-05 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 01/05/2012 08:56 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 5, 2012, at 11:42 AM, Janos Dohanics wrote: - Do I have a bad hard drive (apparently, I do...) - Why are there No Errors Logged by smartctl? You've probably got a bad sector on the drive, anyway. The SMART error log is a funny thing