smartd: 3 Offline uncorrectable sectors

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> writes:
> On Sat, 2006-26-08 at 14:01 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> >     Aug 26 13:16:15 arbol smartd[2284]: Device: /dev/sdb, 3 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors 
> >     Aug 26 13:16:15 arbol smartd[2284]: Device: /dev/sdb, 3 Offline uncorrectable sectors 
> find out which files contain the bad blocks so that you know what data you
> are losing and can take appropiate action. There is some documentation on
> how to do this at:
> http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/BadBlockHowTo.txt

The problem in my case is that there aren't any bad sectors found in
the extended tests.  The claimed errors for /dev/sdb don't seem to
show up in the smartctl tests.  Even the long test passes with flying
colors.

# smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sdb
...

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA
_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%       277         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%       277         -
# 3  Short offline       Completed without error       00%       273         -
# 4  Short offline       Completed without error       00%       271         -
# 5  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%       270         -
# 6  Short offline       Completed without error       00%       263         -
# 7  Extended offline    Aborted by host               70%       263         -
# 8  Short offline       Completed without error       00%       262         -

(Kanwar, thanks for posting!  Its good to know mine isn't an isolated problem.)

-wolfgang
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