Gnome-disk-utility shows warning message - 'Disk has a few bad sectors'

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Issue

  • We have four SATA hard disk devices connected to the system. The Gnome-disk-utility shows warning message - Disk has a few bad sectors or DISK HAS MANY BAD SECTORS for all these disks. But the disk diagnostic utility provided by h/w vendor does not report any issue with the disk or controller. Is there any bug in the disk utility due to which above warning messages are logged?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
  • libatasmart version older than 0.17-4.el6_2

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