[TriLUG] Failing hard drives (laptops)

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, T. Bryan wrote:

> On the other hand, when I look at the error log (smartctl -l error), it shows
> the last five errors
> Error (17|16|15|14|13) at disk power on
> UNC 45 sectors at LBA 0x01d563ba = 30761914.

don't wait another minute. power it down, figure out how 
you're going to back it up, then mount it somewhere else 
(ro), back it up and swap it out and thank your lucky stars.

> Here are the messages I saw in /var/log/messages.  UncorrectableError doesn't
> sound good, but once the machine boots, it seems to run fine most of the
> time.

the disk will be getting a few more of these.

Joe

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