Comment 22 for bug 412152

A more thorough discussion of this issue is in yet another Fedora bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498115.

When I installed karmic, I too was falsely alarmed by palimpsest's warning about a single reallocated bad sector in a disk I've been using for years. I ran the manufacturer's test, which said there was no problem.

I believe palimpsests's author, as quoted in #7, is not as well as informed as he could be about the non-zero number of failures one typically sees in disks these days.