SMART Self-Test Reports UNC Errors on Dell Latitude D800 Hitachi Travelstar DK23FB

["Michael G. Morey" <mmorey@optivel.com>]

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All,

I've installed and run the smartmontools package backported to Debian
GNU/Linux 3.0r1 from http://www.backports.org, and have run the short
and extended Offline self tests.  The results are as follows:

smartctl version 5.32 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining 
LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       80%     
4089         8371832
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     
4088         -
# 3  Short offline       Completed without error       00%        
0         -

My manager suggested that I reformat the partitions (we use ReiserFS
3.6), to mark the bad blocks.  Is this a viable option?  Can the drive
be salvaged, or should it be replaced?

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Michael G. Morey <mmorey@optivel.com>
Optivel

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