'hard drive failing' bug?

[Lvl21nerd]

i installed Fedora 11 the other day and did all the updates and even after all of that it showed that on of my hard drives was failing, did the SMART check and it showed 1 bad sector....no biggie i guess but the icon at the top bugs the hell out of me and i just want to know how to remove it (icon showing hard drive failure emminent)

how do i get rid of it?

[Rubberman]

Most drives these days automatically remap bad sectors for spares, and will only show this if the drive is really getting wonky. You can run fsck with the -c -k option to read-only scan the drive for bad blocks, or -c -c -k (repeat the -c option) to do a read-write scan for bad blocks. In either case, it will store the bad block information so that the system will not try to use those blocks when allocating space for files or directories. The -k option will preserve any existing bad block information already in the system and append any new ones to the bad-block inode table. Anyway, take a look at the man pages for fsck and fsck.ext3 for more information.

[glennzo]

Palimpsest is lying. There are a few bugs with that utility so it shows the drive as failing. Happened to me. Funny thing is that Vista, Windows 7 and CentOS tell me the drive is fine.