On 11/23/2009 07:52 PM lostson wrote:
Hello
I seem to be getting some messages via email and in var/log/messages as well, i think its a hard drive gone bad but was wondering if anyone has seen something similar to this or would have some ideas if its fixable or not, here are the messages
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The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
Device: /dev/hda, 993 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
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I get this kind of warning also, though the number of unreadable sectors I get is in the single digits. All disks have some unreadable sectors. It's just a product of the manufacturing process. A low-level format discovers these and marks and maps them so that they aren't used... so not a big deal. (You are, after all, getting the message about them, right?) So having unusable sectors isn't in itself a problem. You've got a lot of them, but then perhaps your drive and the part of it you're using is much larger than mine. If this 993 sectors is a considerable percentage of your disk, then you'd have cause to ask for a refund or exchange on the purchase, but still no real cause for alarm. However, if that number of sectors increases over time, then you have a sign of a failing drive and obviously would want to replace it ASAP.
hth, ken