[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#574289: gnome-disk-utility: palimpsest reports SMART sector count error when values are still good

[Jerry Quinn]

Package: gnome-disk-utility
Version: 2.28.1-3
Severity: normal


I just rebooted my machine after months and had a window pop up telling me one
of my disks had a SMART error reported.  It says DISK HAS MANY BAD SECTORS, and reports the reallocated sector count as follows:

Normalized: 191
Worst:      191
Threshold:  140
Value:       72 sectors

After going to the disk manufacturer and reading up on SMART, it looks to me
like normalized values are better going up and worse going down.  So by that
account, 191 is not perfect but is still reasonable since it is above 140.

As far as I can tell, the drive manufacturer thinks the drive is still good.
That suggests that the utility may be complaining because the raw value is
below the threshold rather than using the normalized one?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-disk-utility depends on:
ii  libatasmart4          0.17+git20100219-1 ATA S.M.A.R.T. reading and parsing
ii  libatk1.0-0           1.28.0-1           The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                 2.10.2-6           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2             1.8.8-2            The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3           1.2.20-2           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2      0.84-1             simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1        2.8.0-2            generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6          2.3.11-1           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgdu-gtk0           2.28.1-3           GTK+ standard dialog library for l
ii  libgdu0               2.28.1-3           GObject based Disk Utility Library
ii  libglib2.0-0          2.22.4-1           The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0     2.28.2-1           GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0           2.18.6-1           The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnautilus-extension 2.28.4-1           libraries for nautilus components 
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify 0.4.5-1            sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpango1.0-0         1.26.2-1           Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libunique-1.0-0       1.1.6-1            Library for writing single instanc
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3   compression library - runtime

gnome-disk-utility recommends no packages.

gnome-disk-utility suggests no packages.

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