Re: [smartmontools-support] pending sectors > 0 but can't find offending sectors

[Bruno W. I. <br...@wo...>]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 21:40:27 +0100,
  Ciro Scognamiglio <c.s...@ol...> wrote:
> 
> Infact I followed the howto and cleaned up all three pending sectors.
> As you can see no sector has been reallocated, so I guess that was a 
> filesystem error...even though the kernel messages let me suppose it was an 
> hardware issue....

It was probably still a hardware error. The disk will not always reallocate
sectors that it was unable to read. Sometimes they will still work when
rewritten.