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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=353804#c15





--- Comment #15 from Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxx>  2008-01-28 10:42:16 MST 
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In the smartd faq it seems that "pending sector" is one that has not been
reallocated yet and you need to use the manufacturer's utilities to relocate.

> Normally when an uncorrectable sector is found, the disk puts
> this onto a 'pending sector list' to indicate that it should be
> replaced with a spare good sector. However this replacement won't
> take place until either the disk can read the data on the bad
> sector, or is commanded to write new data to that bad sector.


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