Mandriva
libatasmart package

  1. Bug #438136
  2. Comment #69

Comment 69 for bug 438136

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Jags Desai (jagsdesai) wrote :

I get the same error, Disk Has Many Bad Sectors, in Palimpsest Disk Utility while trying to install Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 from 32-bit Live CD too. Hard drive is 7 months old 320GB Samsung HM320JI.

After getting this warning in Karmic I ran the Samsung HDD Diagnostic Utility (especially 4+ hr read surface scan) and drive passed all the tests. ( http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/productmodel.do?group=&type=62&subtype=67&model_cd=324&dType=G&mType=SW&tab=down&ppmi=1159 )

Now even though drive passed all Samsung tests, Palimpsest still says 3725 sectors are bad under "Current Pending Sector Count" in more info/SMART data window. Is this bug related to Samsung drive or something? As the number of Samsung drives mentioned in this thread is way higher than any other brand.

I don't know if there's pattern or something but before trying to install Karmic I ran DBAN, installed Windows 7 and now I'm getting bad sectors warning everytime when Windows 7 boots up too.