Re: Bad Sectors on a SATA Drive

Sorry about the late answer...

Lawrence Houston wrote:
<snip>
> Is a SATA Drive being claimed by libata and being exported as a SCSI 
> Device a good thing or a bad thing??
>
It's the way libata works, it's a good thing.

> Can someone with more experience reading SMART Data tell me the state of 
> this 160 GIG Seagate Drive???  It does NOT look very good, how immediate 
> does this "Pre-Fail" mean???
> 
I have no knowledge of how to interpret these values so I rely on the 
SMART selftest (-H) to tell me if the drive is bad.
Since apparently the selftest passes I'd suggest you grab the vendor 
diagnostic tool (seatools in this case) and have it run a full scan of 
the drive. If seatools says the drive is good then it probably is and 
the problem lies elsewhere (bad or inadequate powersupply perhaps?)

<snip smartctl output>

-tgc

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