Comment 36 for bug 438136

To everyone reporting this as a bug; while its clear there IS a bug (negative relocated sector count, or ppl seeing 65500 relocated sectors), its not clear to be if those people seeing credible values (between 1-300 or so) are blaming this bug incorrectly or not. Please run another smart monitoring tools or hardware diagnosis program of your harddrive vendor to verify.

Doing read/write tests or filesystems checks does NOT disprove palimpsest's warning. Relocated sectors are invisible to the filesystem or operating system, the harddrive manages them automatically and transparently until it runs out of spare sectors, and only exposes this information through S.M.A.R.T.

If anyone can confirm a seemingly credible relocated sector count is in fact incorrect , I would love to learn it. Until then I would be very reluctant to blame this as a bug if you get a warning from palimpsest for a reasonable looking number of bad sectors.