[TriLUG] HD failure eminent?

[Brian Henning]

Yeah, I did those..  The smartctl output I posted was only after the short 
had finished (its result is at the bottom of the original data), but I ran a 
long also and it had no errors...

Bleh.  If I hadn't just bought a bunch of server components, I wouldn't be 
so wary of mentioning this to purchasing...

Thanks for the advice.

~Brian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Hrivnak" <mhrivnak at triad.rr.com>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] HD failure eminent?


> Brian,
>
> If i recall correctly, "passing" a SMART test only means that catastrophic
> failure is not expected within the next 24 hours.
>
> It looks like you haven't used the SMART tests.  Try both of these:
>
> smartctl -t short /dev/hda
>
> The results will show up in the output below.  Then try:
>
> smartctl -t long /dev/hda
>
> After a while, those results will also show up in the output below.
>
> I recently worked with a drive that passed all the SMART tests but
> consistently was producing errors, which were demonstrated in the above
> mentioned tests.
>
> Michael
>