On 06/19/2010 03:01 PM, Alan Cox was caught red-handed while writing:: > On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:43:19 -0700 > JD<jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> Greetings, >> I have a 500GB hd which smarts daemon says has 1 re-mapped sector, and >> 129 bad sectors. >> How is it possible to have 129 bad sectors, but only 1 re-mapped sector? >> Did the HD have only 1 spare sector when I purchased it? >> Is that possible? >> Drive was purchased brand new in factory sealed box. >> > I expect the smart data is reporting sectors marked bad in testing and > formatting up before it was sold. All media has some bad sectors that are > never used. > That's very interesting. When I first had installed the drive (1.9 years ago), on FC7, I did not have the smarts daemon running. I only enabled it in FC10 I think (I cannot recall when I actually turned it on). I started seeing the problem right away when I had enabled the smarts daemon. Assuming what you say is the case, I guess I should ignore the smarts report until the number of failed sectors rise higher than 129. It has been at 129 for as far as I can recall. Cheers, JD -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines