Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:47:58 +1000, yudi v wrote:

> smartctl -a /dev/sda output

> Device Model:     WDC WD7500BPKT-60PK4T0 

(...)

Fiuu!... it's a WD :-P

> Error 669 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 312 hours (13 days + 0
> hours)
>   When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active
>   or
> idle.
> 
>   After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH
>   DH
>   -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>   40 51 08 d0 93 71 e8  Error: UNC 8 sectors at LBA = 0x087193d0 =
>   141661136

(...)

And there you have the mentioned error.

I would just return-back the unit. It is clearly new (less than 400 hours 
of use!) and should not throw any error nor message about its SMART 
health. This does not have to mean a bad drive per se, of course, but 
better safe than sorry. If a new unit still fails, I would recheck the 
cable and/or disk connectors.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón