don vogt <donvogt2001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 1. Am I right, that I don't have a big problem > (yet?)? >>That depends on where the unreadable sector is. If it >>is in the middle of >>an important file it could cause you problems. You >>can use smartctl >>to get the sector number. I wasn't able to figure that out from the man page, Maybe my drives smart attributes don't cover that. >>As for whether or not you should replace the disk, >>that is up to you. Even >>one bad block indicates the failure rate of this disk >>is several times that >>of a similar disk without any reallocated sectors. If >>you had infinite >>money you would want to replace the disk. > 2. Is there some way to make the message stop, short > of disabling smartd on that disk? >>The default for most things is that you only get one >>warning message. You >>could look at /etc/smartd.conf and see if the options >>there cause some >>other behavior. "man smartd.conf" will tell you what >>the options do. Thanks much. I did a lot more research and, while I am still somewhat confused, I plan to get a new drive and try to clone this one. (I pulled the power plug for now) There is another smart attrribute that is something like "relocated sectors", and I think the count number is 19. I interpret that as another sentence of death for the drive. That normalized count system is really confusing me. I read several times what the man page says about it but I can't seem to logically apply it. Maybe it is my drive, it is pretty old. I would have posted the output but the drive is powered down now. Since I am going for a replacement I can wait till later to try to figure it out. Bye the way, I was a rocket scientist for a while so it seems I should be able to figure out the linux man pages, but that isn't always true.. Thanks again.
