[ltp] Is my HD dying?

[Jeffrey Taylor]

Quoting Timothy Murphy <gayleard@eircom.net>:
> On Monday 26 January 2009 04:01:21 Jeffrey Taylor wrote:
> 
> > Lately I'm seeing the errors below when doing backups to an external USB
> > disk.  Is this an indication that the internal HD is going bad?   This is
> > on a T41.
> 
> I'm no sort of expert, but what does smartctl say?
>

smartctl short and long tests show no errors.  The error log shows several UNC
errors with varying sector counts, all starting at the same LBA.  Running
e2fsck with the bad blocks check may have fixed it.  I.e., one backup with no
errors.

Thanks,
  Jeffrey