How severe is IDNF errors in SMART log?

[Playnet]

Hello Norberto,

Tuesday, April 4, 2006, 5:25:49 PM, you wrote:

>> OR you need full backup and monitoring SMART two weeks every day.
>> IDNF is a hard-bad what you can remap with Hitachi tool.
>> http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/downloads/dft32_v406_b00.iso

NM> Thanks for the info :) IBM (AU) has issued an DOA on this laptop, so
NM> they agree on your/mine assesment (once I read them the SMART info over
NM> the phone they must have figured out it was cheaper to get a DOA than
NM> keep paying someone to listen to all that ;) )

NM> Wednesday night, it started doing this little
NM> tsttt....tsttt..tstt... like it was trying to re-spin or something
NM> like this. 
HDD found bads and trying read/remap automatically.

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