[TriLUG] HD failure eminent?

[Brian Henning]

Hi List,
  Someone mentioned that my HD might be on its way out, in response to the 
strange errors I described earlier.  So I went and ran some SMART tests, and 
they all came back negative..  but the general SMART stats looked kind of 
iffy, so I wanted to post them here and find out if anyone had any comments, 
since I really don't completely know what I'm looking at here.  Some of the 
numbers seem high, but I don't know whether high is good or bad..  :-P

Here's the complete output of smartctl -a /dev/hda:

smartctl version 5.21 Copyright (C) 2002-3 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     ST320413A
Serial Number:    7ED2Y9PT
Firmware Version: 3.40
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   5
ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is:    Thu Dec 16 08:43:02 2004 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x82) Offline data collection activity was
     completed without error.
     Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0) The previous self-test routine 
completed
     without error or no self-test has ever
     been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection:    ( 422) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:     (0x1b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
     Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
     Suspend Offline collection upon new
     command.
     Offline surface scan supported.
     Self-test supported.
     No Conveyance Self-test supported.
     No Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
     power-saving mode.
     Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
     No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time:   (   1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:   (  23) minutes.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED 
WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000e   054   048   025    Old_age 
ys       -       101257730
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0002   083   077   000    Old_age 
ys       -       0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age 
ys       -       357
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0032   099   099   036    Old_age 
ys       -       46
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000e   075   060   030    Old_age 
ys       -       34823207
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   094   094   000    Old_age 
ys       -       5904
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0012   100   100   097    Old_age 
ys       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age 
ys       -       514
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   037   054   000    Old_age 
ys       -       37
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   056   051   000    Old_age 
ys       -       187358950
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age 
ys       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age 
line      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age 
ys       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0000   100   100   000    Old_age 
line      -       0
202 TA_Increase_Count       0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age 
ys       -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours) 
LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00% 
4         -

Thanks y'all..  I guess I should just start looking into getting a 
replacement drive anyhow..  but I wanted some expert advice.

Cheers,
~Brian



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