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 early-failure window, which isn't to say it couldn't be on the verge of failing. Things that are odd though (via the disc management SMART view): 1. It reports 'electrical failure' as the SMART test status. 2. The parameter that is failing is "197 C5 Current Pending Sector Count", which shows a large negative number. 3. On refreshing the SMART data both problems clear, current pending sector count goes to 0 + n/a and drive status is healthy. 4. Running a short self-test the drive still shows as healthy. 5. On a long self test this morning I got 'electrical failure' again at the end, however refreshing changed this to 'healthy'.
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 incorrectly before pending sectors have been cleared. Does anyone else have any idea what might be going on? Drive is obviously still in warranty, just want to know how concerned I need to be. -- imalone -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
