On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:41 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: > I decided, after the last discussion of smartd and S.M.A.R.T. disks, > to take a look in my /var/log/messages, and I'm seeing fair bit of > this: > > Sep 10 20:11:23 mhrichter smartd[3361]: Device: /dev/sda, 4294967295 > Offline uncorrectable sectors > Sep 10 20:41:23 mhrichter smartd[3361]: Device: /dev/hdb, 21 Currently > unreadable (pending) sectors (snip) > Google is not particularly informative on this subject - anyone know > more than general suggestions about dd, badblocks, etc.? This is my > boot and primary system disk (has been for some time), but the error > message is essentially meaningless (to me, right now). You should start thinking of replacing the disk. There is a discussion in the forum: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15880&forum=39 I am one of the people there who were getting the same error and replaced the disk. Akemi / toracat