Re: [smartmontools-support]SMART Reported Disk Errors (Unrecoverable etc)

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

> Dec 21 11:39:26 xxxxxxx smartd[2990]: Device: /dev/hda, 1 Currently unreadable 
> (pending) sectors
> Dec 21 11:39:26 xxxxxxx smartd[2990]: Device: /dev/hda, 1 Offline 
> uncorrectable sectors
> 
> Running a long test only shows:
> 
> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
> SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
> Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  
> LBA
> _of_first_error
> # 1  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%      5778         -
> # 2  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%      5762         -
> # 3  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      5762         -

Apparently some drives don't zero out the unreadable/offline-uncorrectable
sector counts, even after the sectors have been reallocated.  You might be
able to get the drive to do this using the '-t offline' test.

Cheers,
	Bruce