At 6:03 PM +0930 9/22/06, Tim wrote: ... > Tony Nelson > > The output shows bad sectors, so it isn't (just) a filesystem error. > > > > It would be nice to know whether the disk thinks it is failed, or > > just has some bad sectors. "smartctl -a /dev/hda" will tell > > everything. > > Here you go: ... > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === > SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED This is the main thing. ... > General SMART Values: > Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity > was never started. > Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. You might want to turn this on with "smartctl -o on /dev/hda". It may make the disk a bit slower. It may scrub bad sectors before they become uncorrectable. > 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 200 098 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 > 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0006 109 104 000 Old_age Always - 1150 > 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 098 098 040 Old_age Always - 2523 > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0012 198 198 112 Old_age Always - 5 > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 065 065 000 Old_age Always - 26112 > 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 > 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 > 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0012 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 2296 > 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0012 196 196 000 Old_age Always - 4 > 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 200 199 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0012 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0009 200 200 051 Pre-fail Offline - 0 ... The drive doesn't think it has failed, as the WHEN_FAILED column is blank. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>