On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
Hi Folks, Trying to understand this message, any ideas? This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on: host name: xxx.xxx.com DNS domain: xxx.com NIS domain: (none) The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/hdb, 14 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages).
It means you have 14 bad sectors on your /dev/hdb hard drive. It also means it is time to buy another drive and copy your data over to it.
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