[TriLUG] HD failure eminent?

[Len Boyle]

Hello Brian

You might want to go to this site: http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

Download the SeaTools Desktop Diagnostic tools. This tool should tell you if the disk is bad and if still cover by the warranty makes out the return form for you. Note requires windows create a bootable diagnostic floppy diskette.


len 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Henning
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 1:05 PM
To: TriLUG
Subject: [TriLUG] HD failure eminent?

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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Brian A. Henning
Strutmasters.com
866.597.2397
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