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Mr Anderson wrote:
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> "J. Clarke" <jclarke@nospam.invalid> ha scritto nel messaggio
> news:cegkuq036h@news2.newsguy.com...
>> Mr Anderson wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > "J. Clarke" <jclarke@nospam.invalid> ha scritto nel messaggio
>> > news:ceg8ls01mce@news1.newsguy.com...
>> >> Mr Anderson wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > "Joep" <j o e p @ d i y d a t a r e c o v e r y . n l> ha scritto
>> >> > nel messaggio
>> >> > news:abcd6$410b82ff$3eddca68$16759@nf1.news-service-com...
>> >> >> "Mr Anderson" <anderson@despammed.com> wrote in message
>> >> >> news:UnIOc.60465$OR2.3359711@news3.tin.it...
>> >> >> > I have downloaded and installed the trial version of "Active
>> >> >> > Smart 2.41"
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > (http://www.ariolic.com).
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > As soon as I started the programme a warning popup windows
>> >> >> > appears
>> > with
>> >> >> the
>> >> >> > following message:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > "WARNING! The drive Maxtor 6Y120MO, 122.9 GB [S/N: Y31XRT1E]
>> > indicated
>> >> >> > a S.M.A.R.T error condition. Immediately back-up your data and
>> > replace
>> >> > this
>> >> >> > hard drive!
>> >> >> > A failure may be imminent"
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> How much 'clearer' do they have to make this warning for you to
>> >> >> understand it? What part of it makes you doubt? What are the
>> >> >> doubts?
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > not the warning message makes me to have any doubts. But the red
>> >> > item which causes the warning message. The problem is I cannot
>> >> > undertand what "Reallocated Sector Count" means and why my hard
>> >> > drive is in danger according to active smart.
>> >>
>> >> Every time the disk detects a bad sector it at the first opportunity
> maps
>> > it
>> >> to a spare--this is called "reallocation". As to what "reallocated
>> >> sector count" means to your program, I have no idea--it appears that
> the
>> >> program reports things backwards from the way common sense would have
> it,
>> >> so that
>> > a
>> >> low number is bad and a high one is good. Apparently it does some
>> >> kind of weird calculation on the real number to get one that makes no
>> >> sense
> at
>> > all.
>> >> One of these days somebody needs to line up all the technicians in the
>> >> world, bore holes in their heads, and pour in a few pints of common
>> >> sense, but I suspect that Satan will be seen in LL. Bean shopping for
>> >> warm
>> > clothes
>> >> before that happens.
>> >>
>> >> >>In the status window of the programme the item "Reallocated Sector
>> > Count"
>> >> > is
>> >> >>red
>> >> >
>> >> >>Threshold 63
>> >> >>Value 3
>> >> >>Worst 3
>> >>
>> >> Well, given that 100 is perfect and when the count however calculated
>> >> gets down to 63 that's bad and it's being reported as 3 I'd say that
>> >> that's _real_ bad.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> --John
>> >> Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
>> >> (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
>> >
>> > I cannnot understand the whole sense of your answer (I'm italian) but I
>> > think you advise me not to worry, don't you?
>> > However I am scared by Arno Wagner's answer
>>
>> No. Be scared. Arno's right. The way the counter seems to work a disk
>> with no reallocated sectors would show "100", a disk with all available
>> sparing used up would be a "0", with a warning issued when the counter,
>> however calculated, decreases from 100 to 63. On your disk, it has gone
>> past 63, all the way down to 3, which is exceedingly bad.
>>
>> >>It means that it did encouter a lof of sectors it could just
>> >>barely read or not read at all and had to replace. Take the
>> >>warning literally and back-up now
>> >
>> > I am really confused!! What should I do????
>>
>> Assume that your disk is dead--save what you can.
>>
> With a low-level format can the problem be solved?
What part of "broken" are you having trouble with? Remember what Scipio
Africanus did to Carthage? Well something like that is happening to your
drive.
--
--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
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