S.M.A.R.T. message: Device: /dev/sda, 1 Offline uncorrectable sectors

Glassious · 12-27-2007, 02:07 PM

When i opened Suse 10.3 today this message come up: Your hard disk drive is failing! S.M.A.R.T. message: Device: /dev/sda, 1 Offline uncorrectable sectors. When i re-opened it now, it didn't came up. Is this serious?Is there something i can do about it?

David1357 · 12-27-2007, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Glassious

Is this serious?Is there something i can do about it?

Usually, S.M.A.R.T. messages like that precede a total hard drive failure. Backup your hard drive now.

Glassious · 12-27-2007, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by David1357

Usually, S.M.A.R.T. messages like that precede a total hard drive failure. Backup your hard drive now.

The hard drive is two months old or less. It's Western Digital, it has warranty but is this problem covered?

redbook · 12-28-2007, 03:04 PM

I don't know what the problem is but I have got the same message on 4 separate drives all WD. I have run extensive tests on all the drives and can find no errors (microscope). Is your drive SATA or IDE? Mine were all SATA. In the end I disabled SMART.