On November 4, 2011, Jérôme Poulin wrote:

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Mathias Burén [off-list ref] 

wrote:

quoted

Basically, if uncorrectable sectors >0 or pending sectors >0 the drive
is failing. So replace ASAP :)

Exactly, with the new drives, they try to hide errors as much as they
can, as soon as SMART shows anything suspect, READ DMA failures,
pending sectors, offline uncorrectable sectors, or any tests fail, the
disk is going to die soon.

Maybe I was just lucky, but I had an uncorrectable sector error at one point, 
and ran a dd write on the drive, and SMART reported the sectors were 
corrected. It wouldn't do it with a read, but a full write worked. The drive 
worked for quite some time after that. I might still have it, but I can't 
remember which drive that was (I've had a lot).

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