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From: Frode E. M. <fr...@fr...> - 2004-10-27 08:01:58
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On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:51:07 -0500, Bruce Allen wrote: > > Booting into linux and running smartctl listed two IDNF error events. > > One of these is for LBA "0x0000003f", which I think is very strange - I > > thought the first 63 sectors were reserved for the MBR/partition table > > and cannot fanthom why winxp would want to write there. > I agree -- why would the OS want to write there unless you were trying to > repartition the disk or install some other booter there? I wasn't doing anything like that. Strange :) > > I'm also puzzled by the "Reallocated event count" being 18 (what does > > this attribute really mean?) while there is 0 raw read errors, 0 > > reallocated sectors, 0 current_pending_sectors, 0 offline > > uncorrectable and 0 udma crc errors. Did the drive really reallocate > > any sectors? > I think it means that there were 18 instances where it 'thought about' > doing reallocation. But it didn't, in the end, decide to do this. Ok, thanks for the explanation! > > Performing a short self-test PASSES, and trying to read sector 63 by > > doing "hexdump -C /dev/hda" for a while seems to work perfectly. > > Is this a cause for concern? > I'm not sure. As far as I can tell, the disk looks OK. For confidence, I > suggest that you do a long self-test (-t long). I'll do that. Thanks for the analysis! |