do I have to worry about these disk errors?

[Mike Chambers]

On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 16:41 +0300, Jussi Lehtola wrote:

> You can verify the diagnosis with
> 
> # smartctl -A /dev/sda
> 
> If you have a nonzero number in one or more of the following fields
>   Reallocated_Sector_Ct
>   Current_Pending_Sector
>   Offline_Uncorrectable
> then your hard drive is failing. Especially if you have something in  
> the latter two you should panic.

I was getting a report myself via the gui applet that my sd was failing
(this damn thing isn't even a year old), so I ran the command above..

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
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   105   094   006    Pre-fail  Always
-       9758257
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   096   094   000    Pre-fail  Always
-       0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always
-       16
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  Always
-       1
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   075   060   030    Pre-fail  Always
-       39183414
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always
-       1247
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   097    Pre-fail  Always
-       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always
-       15
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always
-       0
189 High_Fly_Writes         0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always
-       0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   061   052   045    Old_age   Always
-       39 (Lifetime Min/Max 37/41)
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   039   048   000    Old_age   Always
-       39 (0 20 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   065   061   000    Old_age   Always
-       52230011
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always
-       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age
Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always
-       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age
Offline      -       0
202 TA_Increase_Count       0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age   Always
-       0

Hopefully didn't get messed up and not wrapped.  Basically I see a 1
where the Reallocated_Sector_Ct is.  Is this thing going bad?

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

Fedora Project - Bugzapper, Tester, User, etc..
miketc302 at fedoraproject.org