Running smartctl produces: smartctl --all -d scsi /dev/sde smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
Device: Seagate FreeAgent Go Version: 0142 Serial number: 2GE45ABA Device type: disk Local Time is: Sat Jul 9 10:45:54 2011 MST Device does not support SMART Error Counter logging not supported Device does not support Self Test logging Not much help. A summary of the SMART data: ID = 5 Reallocated Sector Count Count of remapped sectors Normalized 98 Worst 98 Threshold 36 Value 336 sectors This is the data for the drive I reformatted. Paolo On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Bruno Wolff III <br...@wolff.to> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 09:33:46 -0700, > Paolo Galtieri <pgalti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have 2 Seagate FreeAgent Go 1Tb drives. These are portable drives > > that get their power through USB. Both these drives are about 1 year > > old. Every time I login I get a notification that both these drives may > > be going bad. The reason is too many bad sectors. One drive is > > formatted as it originally came, i.e NTFS the other was reformatted as > > Ext4. I have checked both drives using Seagate's tools (in non > > destructive mode) as well as checking the NTFS one in Windows 7. No > > problems where reported. The question is should I really believe what > > SMART is telling me or is it just stupid :-) > > > > There are no disk errors reported or any other issues that might > > indicate the drive is going bad. > > It might help to see the smartctl output. >
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