On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 13:00 -0400, Paul Michael Reilly wrote: > The smartd daemon (Fedora Rawhide) is starting to indicate that the > hard drive has pending unreadable sectors: > > Sep 3 08:01:43 roamer smartd[2032]: Device: /dev/hda, 9 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors > > These have been occurring over the past few days on my (~3 year old) > A31p Thinkpad. My first take is that the system is trying to tell me > that it is time to replace the hard drive. Before ordering a new > drive, I figured I'd bounce this off the lists for second opinions. > > Thanks, > > -pmr > Replace the drive fast. Bob Cochran
