[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

[Jean-Louis]

I'm very happy for this decision.

Before to investigate through this problem, I've bought a new hdd for
security reason (backup all data), but for now, after 3 months, the
numbers of reallocated sectors is stable and haven't increased.

This patch could will save unneeded e-waste

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palimpsest bad sectors false positive
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Status in ATA S.M.A.R.T. Disk Health Monitoring Library: Confirmed
Status in OEM Priority Project: New
Status in “libatasmart” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed
Status in “libatasmart” source package in Lucid: Fix Committed
Status in “libatasmart” source package in Karmic: Triaged
Status in “libatasmart” package in Fedora: Confirmed
Status in “libatasmart” package in Mandriva: New
Status in “libatasmart” package in zUbuntu: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility

palimpsest complains, that the disk has many bad sectors. palimpsest thinks, that SMART value 5 "Reallocated Sector Count" fails (screenshot attached). smartctl reports "  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   097   097   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       117" (full log attached) which seems to be ok. This error appears on a different system, too.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 28 15:20:15 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64