Thinkpad x40: palimpsest reports disk as failing when it isn't
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Hello
Wasn't quite sure where to report this. In the Karmic alpha, I'm getting a warning on every startup that my disk is failing. This is presumably because of this:
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 095 095 000 Old_age Always - 159277
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 102324246527
(That's 18 years of power on hours, load-cycling 178 times a second, if taken literally). The GUI gives the following:
Powered On: 6.64e+03 days
and also points out that the disk has bad sectors, but doesn't tell me how many.
sam@candylion:~$ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: HTC426040G9AT00
Serial Number: E5XW54
Firmware Version: 00P4A0B4
User Capacity: 40,007,761,920 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 6
ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a
Local Time is: Wed Aug 19 13:50:43 2009 BST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
sam@candylion:~$ sudo apt-cache policy gnome-disk-utility
gnome-disk-utility:
Installed: 0.4-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 0.4-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 0.4-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
I know this is an alpha but I didn't find any info on what improvements are going to be made to gdu. It's annoying being warned by a popup dialog which I have to close each time I start my computer that my disk is dying, which it isn't, so I think it would help if some of these options were considered:
1. the 'disk is failing' dialog should be a notification perhaps
2. gnome-disk-utility should provide an 'ignore this warning' facility
3. gnome-disk-utility should recognise when the values its getting are meaningless
I think the new gnome-disk-utility is great otherwise by the way, it's a good thing to have in the OS, it's just got a few annoying issues right now :)
