Comment 56 for bug 438136

I think a lot of you are still dismissing valid warnings by palimpsest, blaming this as a bug while its not.

Those people running seatools, from what I can tell from the user manual seatools only gives a PASS or FAIL. No PRE FAIL. I also cant find it if generates a detailed report with actual numbers (does it?) and I cant say with certainty but it looks like it will PASS any drive even with >0 or >100 relocated bad sectors and will FAIL only if the drive ran out of spare sectors to relocate to. Maybe someone can confirm or contradict this. But if this is true and If you have 50 or 100 relocated sectors, I think its good that palimpsest warns you of impeding drive failure, even if seatools passes your drive.

Now if speedfan or any other smart monitoring tool that gives a detailed reading contradicts palimpsest reported relocated sector *count* (and not just its interpretation of those values), then we might be looking at a bug, otherwise its just a different interpretation of valid results.

To be clear, palimpsest reporting negative or >65000 relocated sectors, that IS a bug. All other warnings, I still doubt it.