"One or more disks are failing" ?
Scott Beamer
geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com
Sat Jul 4 09:57:33 UTC 2009
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!
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Scott
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