[Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

[Richard Gunn]

I definitely have a false positive with my main drive (Hitachi), but
something else just occurred to me - when I tried install Karmic from
the live CD, it refused to recognize my Hitachi drive as a viable target
for installation. In the end, I was forced to upgrade from Intrepid to
Jaunty to Karmic using the dist upgrade option in synaptic.

I only discovered the false positive issue with palimpsest AFTER I had
upgraded to Karmic through synaptic, so in retrospect, I wander if some
sort of integrity check is done on the drive before the Karmic CD
installer lists it prior to partitioning, and whether this false
positive issue actually prevented me from installing Karmic from the
live CD onto my Hitachi hard drive.

If that is true, perhaps an additional issue should be added to the list
for the Karmic live CD?

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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 Released
Status in “libatasmart” source package in Lucid: Fix Released
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