Comment 55 for bug 438136

Hi lago Laz and everyone....

I am getting the same error as well. I am getting the errors on a fairly new Seagate Barracuda 500gb. Was fine with 9.04 and then I upgraded through the terminal and now I get two errors...

1. Preallocated Sector Count Warning.. Count of remapped sectors when the hard drive finds a read/write/verification error, it makes the sector as "reallocated" and transfers data to a special reserved area (spare area).. Value 73, Normalized 100, Worst 100, Threshold 36, Value 24 sectors.

2. Current Pending Sector Count.. Number of sectors waiting to be remapped. If the sector waiting to be remapped is subsequently written or read successfully, this value is decreased the sector is not remapped, read errors on the sector will not remap the sector, it will only be remapped on a failed write attempt.. Normalized 100, Worst 100, Threshold 0, Value 72 sectors.

Type failure is a sign of old age. Updates every time data is collected (online) Raw 0x4800000000000

When I used a couple other tests all the tests said there was nothing wrong with the hard drive. I used Hard Drive Inspector in windows as well and all was good. I am going to save my money and not purchase a new Hard Drive at this time. I have backed up the important files to DVD which if you have important files they should backed up anyways, but I have been told that it is a bug specific to Karmic Koala.