Billie Walsh wrote:
Fernando Costa wrote:
Hi all,
Some days ago I began to receive the following message: "Your hard disk drive is failing! S.M.A.R.T. message: Device: /dev/sda, 1 currently unreadable (pending) sector" I don't know what it refers to but I have run a Live Gparted CD to check the entire hard disk (200 GB) and some inodes where repaired but the message is still showing up when I restart the computer. Any idea on what to do?
Thanks,
Don't know if this helps, but a few years ago I had a computer that was saying the same thing. I couldn't find anything wrong with the drive so I turned off smart and used it another couple years before it finally failed.
One thing to bear in mind, is that drives have spare sectors, which get used as others fail. The warning is to tell you that the drive is well on it's way to failing and should be replaced ASAP. You were lucky that it didn't fail sooner. What you did, is comparable to disabling the engine light on a car, rather than fixing what's causing it to turn on. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org