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SubjectRe: SATA exceptions
Hi!

> >> Your SMART log shows 309 reallocated sectors. That seems somewhat high..
> >
> > Ah sorry to misinterpret the content:), its a quiet new piece of hardware (at
> > most ~1.5 month old) and "Reallocated_Event_Count" constantly increases
> > (currently its increased to 313) and although i'm not 100 percent sure these
> > errors only occured with kernels > 2.6.18 (or 2.6.18 didn't report these
> > cause according to kern.log these only visible with 2.6.22+)
>
> OS and driver can't really do much about the reallocation event. Some
> number of reallocations is okay but if you it going up constantly, you
> probably have a dying disk.

Hmm... cut the power while writing is doable from OS and might force
reallocations?

You might want to check if number of reallocated sectors increases
with shutdowns/reboots.
Pavel
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