"One or more disks are failing" ?
Jussi Lehtola
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jul 4 10:42:16 UTC 2009
On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 02:57 -0700, Scott Beamer wrote:
> 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
clip
> 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always
> - 4
This means your disk is breaking down, and should be replaced soon.
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always
> - 2
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age
> Offline - 1
And these IIRC mean that you've already lost some data. Replace the disk
ASAP.
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Jussi Lehtola
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