On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:25:02 -0700, Scott wrote: > On 07/06/2009 12:05 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > On 06/07/09 07:57, Scott Beamer wrote: > >> So last night I booted into Windows. And I got my hand on a program (GUI > >> based) that gives you all the SMART stats in slightly better plain > >> English. There were no warnings of demise of any type (I'm back in Linux > >> now and the program name escapes me, but it's not really important). > >> > >> In any event, just to be sure, I installed Ubuntu today (zapping the > >> Fedora partitions) and ran the test again. > > > > And you trust Windose and Ubuntu. Mwaahaaaahhaa > > > > > > Frank > > > > > > Sorry had to do it. :D > > > > LOL. > > I trust Debian and Mandriva as well. Funnily, you posted a SMART report that shows the same values as before. A self-test that ended with a read failure. One sector that the drive has failed to reallocate/replace. Two sectors that have not been reallocated/replaced yet. Four reallocated sectors is not much of a threat, but you still need to observe that this value doesn't increase steadily. > http://bit.ly/hard-drive-is-in-fact-not-dying Why did you highlight the wrong lines? > Only Fedora had been raising the > alarm over the past month. :) To understand why a component raised the alarm you need to examine what values it looked at. > And someone else earlier in this thread mentioned that he was convinced > it was a bug and filed a (redhat) bug report some time ago. There are some reports http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/libatasmart http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/gnome-disk-utility -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
