[smartmontools-support]Re: Drive with errors... or not?

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

John Lange <joh...@bi...> writes:

> I had a machine that had dual ATA Segate 120G drives. One of the drives
> started to fail, or at least thats what I thought.
> 
> I took the drives out and replaced them with SATA drives. I then put the
> failed drive into my desktop machine so I could confirm its failing
> status before returning it on warranty.
> 
> I reformatted the drive with 
> 
> # mke2fs -c -c -j /dev/hdb1
...

Hi John,

It looks like your drive had one sector that was corrupted, which was
successfully rewritten by the mke2fs command, and so is now OK.  So right
now, the drive is functioning normally.

Drives can get corrupted sectors for many reasons; because of problems
with the drive, or for other reasons (for instance, if the drive is
bumped, or a power supply fluctuation).

It looks like this sector has been corrupted for a while, at least two
months, considering the timestamps on the error logs.  It could be
even longer.

From the SMART data, there doesn't seem any more reason to think this
drive is about to fail catastrophically than there would be for any other
drive.