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libatasmart package

gdu wrongly reports bad disk sectors

Bug #539636 reported by Sebastien Bacher
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #438136: palimpsest bad sectors false positive. Edit Remove
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libatasmart (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Undecided
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

gnome-disk-utility warns me about bad disk sectors but tools downloaded on other systems seem to agree that the disk has no such issue, seems to be a bug in libatasmart rather than a disk issue

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 16 15:04:42 2010
DevkitDisksDump: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100316)
Package: libatasmart4 0.17+git20100219-1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: libatasmart
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

could be the same issue than bug #438136

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in libatasmart (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti)
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Thanks for your report. Indeed this is a duplicate of bug 438136, but I asked you to file a new one to get the smart blob.

However, in this case atasmart is actually working as designed (unlike the implausibly high raw error counts that it often reports, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25772#c6):

 reallocated-sector-count 77| 1| 63 FAIL_PAST 1783 sectors Pre-fail Online

So, this isn't failing just yet according to the SMART standards (77 is still above the treshold of 63), but if I were you I wouldn't count on that hard disk very much any more, and replace it soon. :-)

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