SMART errors - are they for real? or, BIOS weirdness?

[Steve Searle]

Around 11:58am on Sunday, April 29, 2007 (UK time), Thufir scrawled:

> I'm getting SMART errors, but I'm not sure how much credence to give 
> them.  It seems to be the same two e-mails over and over.

<snip>

> Device: /dev/hdb, 2 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors

I have been getting this message, along with a "offline uncorrectable
sectors" message from smart on one of my machines for a few years now
(and I'm not exaggerating).  Its never had any other problems, and I've
learned to live with it and stop worrying.

Of course it isn't a mission critical machine and it is backed up
regularly :-)

Steve

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