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libatasmart package

  1. Bug #438136
  2. Comment #163

Comment 163 for bug 438136

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 438136] Re: palimpsest bad sectors false positive

Graham Inggs [2010-06-09 8:50 -0000]:
> The problem is that 29000 is the RAW value of the re-allocated sector
> count, not the actual count of bad sectors.

Right. But the notification about "Your disk is about to die" now
checks the normalized value/threshold, which is under control by the
driver manufacturer. Do you still get those notifications with the
current lucid or karmic-proposed packages?