Hi I was playing around with smartctl on my server and found some worrying entries in the logs: [root@localhost root]# smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda smartctl version 5.21 Copyright (C) 2002-3 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed: electrical failure 90% 5311 0x00006b47 # 2 Short offline Completed: electrical failure 90% 5311 0x00ac0057 # 3 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 5310 0x003a0c9d # 4 Short offline Completed: electrical failure 90% 5310 0x00d80397 # 5 Conveyance offline Fatal or unknown error 00% 5310 - # 6 Short offline Completed: electrical failure 90% 5310 0x00d80397 # 7 Short offline Completed: electrical failure 90% 5310 0x00007ab7 The drive is unable to complete any selftests, smartctl -c says that the drive supports both short and extended selftests (but not conveyance so that error is ok). The drive in question is a Seagate Barracuda ATA IV (ST340016A), and has been in use for 5311 hours according to smartctl. I checked that SMART is turned on in the BIOS, the power cable is firmly connected, SMART is enabled for the drive and I changed the IDE cable. Still can't run any selftests. Supprisingly smartctl -H shows that the drive thinks it's still ok. Has anybody had "electrical failures" on a drive? Did the drive fail? Thanks, Rasmus
