From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MaGfk-0001ph-40 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:15:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1D3CE0667; Sun, 9 Aug 2009 22:15:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f181.google.com (mail-pz0-f181.google.com [209.85.222.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF9E9E0667 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 2009 22:15:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk11 with SMTP id 11so4544466pzk.10 for ; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:15:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=1DmLVyGQoWLa0RfTQzKCmmDxBxVnhu2v7vMy4pEY5ak=; b=jKUILgXFPleaNYBQ4zUbvWsOqp6d7WzFxYjdQ3rq/2gpZjFczz2HeMOrfY+p/m0VON BF6SO73vY3VGjnWDtH6bx5UxmRAI18Q5Sl3/Ai/SrcMJyeRnUcFDPaW1CHPvKjGdJVKe ffxFZQh4hNs8FIH2XZQfoxO+q/4AOmE66yFcA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=YS8P52gtssvfP1Bq37qfdws5ExQEimGOz0GwOxEzz5B3XXnIFNlVN0onwfX56SJUJb gUhr+V//aP8D1G0PEXoC6s/y0wUfKheuvodiJ6RjzskMWGh2MQ/VlRgcnngdD5IZnXKa NtnPIfoK/BM2nJpjA9XAZ9TdNX51gQBNLQ72M= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.114.156.12 with SMTP id d12mr5281628wae.49.1249856122041; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:15:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 15:15:22 -0700 Message-ID: <49bf44f10908091515y5dcc5ba5xcc2fa6ed4644271f@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-user] {OT} smartctl: read failure From: Grant To: Gentoo mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3282e9ab-b7ae-40e0-a07e-b341028c8a57 X-Archives-Hash: dfd1973d010a16ee8aef94a0b541e12b I get this on my laptop's internal HDD: # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 60% 12400 149547192 after some Googling, it sounds like it's bad sectors and not necessarily cause for alarm. Does anyone have experience with this type of error? Can you suggest other tests to run, or comment on the severity of the error? - Grant