In my experience I have one hard disk with 7 reallocated sectors and work fine (obviously).
Another case is my friend's computer, Windows has stopped working and after a analysis with Palimpsest Disk Utility (on Ubuntu 9.10 live) I've read up to 250 reallocated damage sectors. So, no false positive for me (all hard disk are Maxtor). A clarification: Reallocated sector means that hard disk has internally isolated the sectors, so badblocks don't report errors! This is a hardware data recovery. -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 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
