smartd: 3 Offline uncorrectable sectors

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu]

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 
> 
> I'm at a loss as to how to proceed here.  (Or is smartd reporting a
> problem that occurred in antiquity and I need to somehow acknowledge
> this to the disk and let it clear an error flag?)

I've been getting a similar error for a few months:

smartd[2602]: Device: /dev/hda, 1 Offline uncorrectable sectors

Nothing else appears to be wrong with the hard drive.  Googling for the
error message didn't help me to understand what it means.  I've just
been hoping it doesn't turn into something worse.

I know that doesn't help, but I thought I would let you know you're not
alone.

Regards,

Ranbir

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