Re: [smartmontools-support] 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors: Is it?

[Bruce A. <ba...@gr...>]

Hi Gurvan,

It sounds as if you have repaired the drive properly.

Your disk might be one of the ones that does not set the pending sector to 
0 again, even when the sector is no longer pending.  You can shut off the 
warning messages if they are annoying you -- please see man page.

Cheers,
      Bruce


On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Gurvan Huiban wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> A few days ago, an unreadable sector appeared on the hard drive of my laptop
> (an Hitachi 7k60 HTS726060M9AT00). Since then, each time I boot I get a
> message from the SMART daemon:
> 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
> and the Current_Pending_Sector field of the smartctl -A equals to 1
>
> I used the low-level Hitachi utility to reallocate the defective sector (Drive
> Fitness test); I even low-level formatted the drive. The low-level software
> tells me that my drive is OK. However, the Smart daemon keeps on telling me
> that there is 1 pending sector.
>
> I then followed the bad blocks howto to check manually if I can find something
> wrong (I could not; as far as I can tell, all the smart tests I run pass.
> However, I still get the 1 unreadable message.
>
> So I wonder: Is there really  an unreadable sector on my computer? If so, why
> the Hitachi low-level utility can't find it anymore? How can track it down
> and reallocate it?
>
> If not, why do I still have the Current_Pending_Sector field to 1?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> PS. my laptop runs a testing/unstable Debian, with smartmontools 5.37.
>
> Sincerely,
>