Paul wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, lostson wrote:
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
This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on:
host name: localhost.localdomain DNS domain: localdomain NIS domain: (none)
The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
Device: /dev/hda, 993 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
In my experience, 993 unreadable sectors is a high number. That's not good. I'd definitely suggest replacing the disk.
<snip> At work, I've got one with 70 or so, and am worried. 993? I'd be buying a new drive *now*. There's no way you should have that many; if it was new, I'd have taken it back, and demanded a replacement for a defective drive.
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