Karmic incorrectly states that my Eee SSD drive is failing

I get a warning every time I boot Karmic that one of my drives (of which I only have one) is failing, but smartmontools disagrees:

jtait@ferrari:~$ sudo smartctl -a -d ata -l selftest /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Momentus 5400.2 series
Device Model: ST9100823A
Serial Number: 3LG0YVL4
Firmware Version: 3.01
User Capacity: 100,030,242,816 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 6
ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2
Local Time is: Thu Aug 27 22:47:37 2009 BST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
     was completed without error.
     Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
     without error or no self-test has ever
     been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 426) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
     Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
     Suspend Offline collection upon new
     command.
     Offline surface scan supported.
     Self-test supported.
     No Conveyance Self-test supported.
     Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
     power-saving mode.
     Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
     No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 111) minutes.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 059 054 034 Pre-fail Always - 151771173
  3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 096 095 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
  4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 093 093 020 Old_age Always - 7682
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 29
  7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 082 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 191902122
  9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 084 084 000 Old_age Always - 14104
 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 034 Pre-fail Always - 0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 097 097 020 Old_age Always - 3425
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 3425
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 645831
194 Temperature_Celsiu...

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-disk-utility 0.5-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-6.26-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-6-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

The long test completed without error. The conveyance test isn't supported on my drive, but I thought I'd try it and see what it reported.

jtait@ferrari:~$ sudo smartctl -a -d ata -l selftest /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Momentus 5400.2 series
Device Model: ST9100823A
Serial Number: 3LG0YVL4
Firmware Version: 3.01
User Capacity: 100,030,242,816 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 6
ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2
Local Time is: Thu Aug 27 23:48:40 2009 BST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
     was completed without error.
     Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
     without error or no self-test has ever
     been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 426) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
     Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
     Suspend Offline collection upon new
     command.
     Offline surface scan supported.
     Self-test supported.
     No Conveyance Self-test supported.
     Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
     power-saving mode.
     Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
     No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 111) minutes.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 056 054 034 Pre-fail Always - 104026345
  3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 096 095 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
  4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 093 093 020 Old_age Always - 7682
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 29
  7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 082 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 192173496
  9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 084 084 000 Old_age Always - 14105
 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 034 Pre-fail Always - 0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 097 097 020 Old_age Always - 3425
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 3425
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 645831
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 055 059 000 Old_age Always ...

I should also note that mine is on an Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi - so not an EeePC and not SSD.

I have the same problem with my Asus eee-pc 701 4G ; I have discussed this on ubuntu.fr and another user with the same netbook answered he had the same issue

http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=3017885#p3017885

smart attribute-32, 52, 54 etc (all without manufacturer descriptions) show bad numbers and trigger the systray warning

Is this really a duplicate of bug 412152??
412152 is about mechanical hard drives bad sectors and we have here solid state drives and other warning messages...

I really think there are two different issues here ; james tait, you should post on bug 412152 : as others there, palimpsest detects a classical hard drive that's going to fail (except that manufacturers tools or smartctl show no sign of this : palimpsest triggers a warning after one single sector reallocated, where the others have react after for example 50)
bug 416558 (here) is about warnings of solid state drives, maybe especially those on Asus eee-pc (original?) netbooks : no bad sectors here, just some random unexplained (by the SSD manufacturer) SMART "attributes" (attribute-32, 52, 54, 73 and 84) triggering what appears false positives...

I agree, I think this is not a dupe - Eee's SSD's undocumented parameters raise this alarming warning. it usually happens after a suspend.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.