[smartmontools-support]Re: StartUp Problems with a Travelstar drive

[Geoffrey K. <ge...@ge...>]

Bruce Allen <ba...@gr...> writes:

> Hi Andreas,
> 
> > i've run smartctl -t long twice. The first run reports a bad block. 
> > However, the second run completed without any error.
> 
> I think that the drive has reallocated this bad sector. From looking at
> the current pending sector count though, it looks like there are a lot of
> other sectors that need reallocation. I don't understand why the
> reallocated sector count is still zero.

This can happen if the sectors are corrupt at the raw level (the ECC
data doesn't match) but are fixed by re-writing the track, so no
reallocation is necessary; or a transient read problem.