On 07/04/2009 02:41 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 07:57:46 +0000 (UTC), Scott wrote: > >> For a number of weeks now I've been getting this notification (only when >> in Fedora 11 & running GNOME) that "one or more disks are failing". > > What do you get for "smartctl --all /dev/sda"? Perhaps a non-zero and > growing number of reallocated sectors? Uhhh.... Actually, I got (106 lines of) all this: $ sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: SAMSUNG HD103UJ Serial Number: S13PJ1MQ606788 Firmware Version: 1AA01112 User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 3b Local Time is: Sat Jul 4 02:46:25 2009 MST ==> WARNING: May need -F samsung or -F samsung2 enabled; see manual for details. SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. Self-test execution status: ( 121) The previous self-test completed having the read element of the test failed. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (11658) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 195) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 21) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x003f) SCT Status supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. 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 0x000f 100 064 051 Pre-fail Always - 8 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 077 077 011 Pre-fail Always - 7820 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 536 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 4 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0025 100 100 015 Pre-fail Offline - 10567 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 6202 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0033 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 524 13 Read_Soft_Error_Rate 0x000e 100 066 000 Old_age Always - 8 183 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 184 Unknown_Attribute 0x0033 100 100 099 Pre-fail Always - 0 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2767 188 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 071 068 000 Old_age Always - 29 (Lifetime Min/Max 20/29) 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 071 066 000 Old_age Always - 29 (Lifetime Min/Max 20/32) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 9633546 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 1 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 0 Warning: ATA Specification requires self-test log structure revision number = 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 6201 1818207693 # 2 Short offline Aborted by host 20% 6201 - # 3 Conveyance offline Aborted by host 90% 6201 - # 4 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 4469 - # 5 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 4469 - SMART Selective Self-Test Log Data Structure Revision Number (0) should be 1 SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0 Warning: ATA Specification requires selective self-test log data structure revision number = 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. > >> But when I last went back to Fedora (then rawhide, now F11) it appeared >> again. This only happens when running Fedora 11 in GNOME. > > I can confirm that Fedora 10 doesn't warn about the same disk. What do you mean by that? > >> My drive is exhibiting no odd behavior. It behaves as it should. I've had >> drives fail many times in the past and this one is nowhere near leading >> me to believe that a failure is eminent. > > Filesystems (see "man badblocks") and the hard-disk itself protect against > a first bunch of errors that can only be worked around by reallocating/ignoring > sectors. Until the hardware failures become fatal all of a sudden. Hence > an early warning can be helpful. Well that make sense, I'm questioning the accuracy of the waring I guess. :) Thanks! -- Scott http://angrykeyboarder.com I've never used an OS I didn't (dis)like. ©2009 angrykeyboarder™ & Elmer Fudd. 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