Around 11:58am on Sunday, April 29, 2007 (UK time), Thufir scrawled: > I'm getting SMART errors, but I'm not sure how much credence to give > them. It seems to be the same two e-mails over and over. <snip> > Device: /dev/hdb, 2 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors I have been getting this message, along with a "offline uncorrectable sectors" message from smart on one of my machines for a few years now (and I'm not exaggerating). Its never had any other problems, and I've learned to live with it and stop worrying. Of course it isn't a mission critical machine and it is backed up regularly :-) Steve -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing? 12:30:41 up 5 days, 16:11, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.17, 0.16