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.
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.
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/productmode l.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.