[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

[Christoph Buchner]

I also see the same behaviour on a dual-boot (ubuntu 9.10 and winXP) hp 8530w laptop with a Hitachi drive. It suddenly appeared after defragging a shared ntfs data partition. My reallocation sector count is 65538, and the rest seems unremarkable to me (only reallocation event count is 1).
I attached screenshots of 3 different SMART tools i ran under windows (HDD health, CrystalDiskInfo, and the windows version of smartctl) to check the palimpsest output.
All programs agree about the current/normalised value and threshold (indicating nothing is amiss), but the reading of the raw value of the different programs is interesting (indicated in the screenshot). Remarkably, CrystalDiskInfo also cautions me about the Reallocated Sector count... 

so far i've come to the conclusion that it's a bug in the way the raw-
values of my hitachi drive are translated, but am i right? or is my
drive in fact dying, and should i replace it asap?

anything else i can post to help?

Is there any dev on this? 84 people affected, and copious user reports,
but not even an assignee? or does the assignment to redhat-bugs mean
it's going to be resolved there first?

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palimpsest bad sectors false positive
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136
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