Hi,
I have an old Samsung SpinPoint F3 disk with the smartd reporting a problem with its daily email.
When I check it with
I can
Hoping somebody familiar with SMART diagnostics can tell me how significant ID# 197 is.
Why are "unreadable sectors" not fatal? Why doesn't bad block forwarding make it go away? Why does it persist? Can it be reset?
Cheers,
I have an old Samsung SpinPoint F3 disk with the smartd reporting a problem with its daily email.
When I check it with
smartctl
, it passes the "self-assessment", and the only significant difference between the problem disk and it's mirror pair (which has no problems) is ID#197:
Code:
# smartctl -H -a /dev/da0
...
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
...
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
...
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1
...
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
dd
everything off the disk just fine.Hoping somebody familiar with SMART diagnostics can tell me how significant ID# 197 is.
Why are "unreadable sectors" not fatal? Why doesn't bad block forwarding make it go away? Why does it persist? Can it be reset?
Cheers,