J.L. Coenders wrote:
The strange thing I had exactly the same problem as you this morning.I can reboot the machine and everything works fine ... for a while. ("a while" being anywhere between roughly 30 minutes to weeks at a time.) I just performed a long selftest (through smartctl) again, hoping someone might spot something I'm missing somewhere. Here's the test result;
And now it works perfect again. The diagnosis, also surface scan, works perfect.
> smartctl --attributes --log=selftest /dev/hda
smartctl version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0
2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 111 111 024 Pre-fail Always - 130 (Average 138)
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 52
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 11
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 020 Pre-fail Offline - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 19701
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 52
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 050 Old_age Always - 52
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 050 Old_age Always - 52
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 171 171 000 Old_age Always - 32 (Lifetime Min/Max 15/40)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 24
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 19701 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 19251 -
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