Comment 80 for bug 438136

I wanted to add my report of the "Many bad sectors" notification in Ubuntu 9.10. I hope that this notification is indeed a false positive since this computer is less than a month old and has less than a day and a half of operation, and I can't believe I would have drive errors so soon. Palimpsest reports 54 reallocated sectors on my Hitachi MH160HI drive.

Screenshot is attached.

PS - For the next (Lucid) release, even if the false positive issue cannot be resolved, somewhat less alarmist language in the notification window might be advisable, to correct the "boy who cried wolf" problem mentioned above. For example "Ubuntu has detected a potential problem with your hard disk. Click the icon to learn more." while still informative, is less alarming than "One or more disks are failing."