Palimpsest disk utility found bad sector but the disk is healthy

[frederic St-Pierre]

Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility

Palimpsest disk utility, a program found in the gnome-disk-utility package report bad sectors on disk while the disk is healthy. Other disk related utility didn't find error. It didn't happen in ubuntu 9.04

Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha4 (wubi(ntfs))
Package version : 0.4-0ubuntu1

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Aug 20 13:19:01 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-disk-utility 0.4-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_CA.UTF-8
 LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-6.25-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-6-generic x86_64

[echelon89 (echelon89)]

Same error for me

[me (meirmaor)]

I do not believe this is duplicate of bug #412152 which talks about thresholds,
this issue happens to me as well, since upgrading to 9.10 I get a warning for many bad sectors
which I do not believe exist. I get different values every time all in the "pending sector count"
even though I have 0 reallocated sectors.
at one point I also saw a negative value (see screen-shot attached)

[me (meirmaor)]

further googling suggests this may be the same bug discussed here:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-220231.html