Re: SMART: sectors waiting to be remapped, negative numbers and dual boot

2012-01-29 Thread Ian Malone
On 29 January 2012 08:15, Vikram Goyal wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:52:37PM +, Ian Malone wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I had a slightly worrying moment yesterday when the disc manager in >> F16 came up after booting and logging in and warned me that one of my >> drives wasn't healthy. It was ins

Re: SMART: sectors waiting to be remapped, negative numbers and dual boot

2012-01-29 Thread Vikram Goyal
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:52:37PM +, Ian Malone wrote: > Hi, > > I had a slightly worrying moment yesterday when the disc manager in > F16 came up after booting and logging in and warned me that one of my > drives wasn't healthy. It was installed in August so is outside the > traditional earl

Re: SMART: sectors waiting to be remapped, negative numbers and dual boot

2012-01-23 Thread Ian Chapman
On 01/23/2012 08:52 PM, Ian Malone wrote: Both times I've seen this (yesterday and today) are after re-booting from Windows XP, so I'm wondering if there's something about XP SMART management (or lack off?) that's leaving this parameter unset, or possibly SMART is reading a small positive value