On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 19:00:54 -0600, Charles Curley <charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > However, the fact that the drive has enough bad sectors that the > firmware is reporting them to you means that you have more bad sectors > than there were on the drive since it was manufactured. Your drive is > warning you that it is about to die. I don't think so. The sectors were reported as pending. This just means that the disk can't get a good read. It won't throw away data on its own. The person affected needs to give up on getting data off the sectors and rewrite them, at which point they should be reallocated. If he looks at the output of smartctl -a, he should be able to tell what how many sectors have been remapped and very roughly how many more spares are available.
