Re: Hard disk dying?

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 01:56:41PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
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> On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Sam wrote:
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>> Justin, here is the output from smartctl -a /dev/hda
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>> smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
>> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
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> Your disk looks OK to me, I have seen Device Status Error in the past as
> well but never suffered any ill effects.
I had a drive I just replaced because it kept crashing my machine - had the exact same errors (the error list at the bottom of the report). I failed on resync of the raid set it was part off, I ran it for about 3 weeks, before this started to happen.

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> Some other things to try:
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> smartctl -t short /dev/hda # wait 5min
> smartclt -l selftest /dev/hda
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> smartctl -t long /dev/hda # wait 6-120 min
> smartclt -l selftest /dev/hda
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> and/then show smartctl -a output again
> if all the tests pass, your disk should be OK
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