Public bug reported: 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. s...@candylion:~$ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sda smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === 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 s...@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://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 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 :) ** Affects: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Thinkpad x40: palimpsest reports disk as failing when it isn't https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415897 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
