Smartd message: What does it mean?

[Benjamin Franz]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:

>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Trying to understand this message, any ideas?
>
> This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on:
>
>   host name: xxx.xxx.com
>  DNS domain: xxx.com
>  NIS domain: (none)
>
> The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
> Device: /dev/hdb, 14 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
> For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages).

It means you have 14 bad sectors on your /dev/hdb hard drive. It also 
means it is time to buy another drive and copy your data over to it.

-- 
Benjamin Franz

The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.

                                                          - Donald E. Knuth