A coworker came to me reporting a similar problem. They have an older computer with a newish Seagate Barracuda 160GB. Seagate disk tests I can find suggest the drive is okay, but the smartctl reports show PRE-FAIL and 61 reallocated sectors.
** Attachment added: "seagate test log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35190792/C%3A%5CDocuments%20and%20Settings%5CChristina%20Chen%5CDesktop%5CSEAGATE.LOG -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
