[ale] One possible explanation - Re: 9.10 smart errors

[Paul Cartwright]

On Mon November 2 2009, J. D. wrote:
> Thanks for the enlightening info. I am a little curious to know other
> aler's bad sector counts other aler's encounter with the tool in 9.10. It
> is actually a tool first used in Fedora I think. I heard somewhere recently
> that drives ship with bad sectors so it must not a sign of the apocalypse
> death knell it used to be.

I had bad sectores on my almost 4-year old Dell XPS laptop.. 100 Gb drive.
Smart data-

Read error rate
normalized 100
Worst 100
Threshold 46
Value 75542

Reallocated Sector Count:
normalized 100
Worst 100
Threshold 24
Value 458759 sectors


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