[ale] harddrive errors
James P. Kinney III
jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Sun Jun 5 21:42:27 EDT 2005
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 20:20 -0400, John Wells wrote:
> Jim Philips said:
> > Seagate, like other hard drive manufacturers, offers diagnostic software
> that
> > you can download and use to find out exactly what is happening with your
> disk:
> >
> > http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/
> >
>
> Ok...ran the Seagate Diagnostic "full" test and the drive passed with no
> errors. Is this a sufficient guarantee that the drive is good? I don't
> want to miss out on being able to return it if it's not. For further
> information, here's what S.M.A.R.T has to say about it:
GET RID OF THE DRIVE!!!!! See below
>
> ----------------------------
> $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/hda
> smartctl version 5.32 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Device Model: ST3120026A
> Serial Number: 5JT5H6NQ
> Firmware Version: 8.01
> Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
> ATA Version is: 6
> ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2
> Local Time is: Sun Jun 5 20:10:19 2005 EDT
> 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: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
> was completed without error.
> Auto Offline Data Collection:
> Enabled.
> Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine
> completed
> without error or no self-test has
> ever
> been run.
> Total time to complete Offline
> data collection: ( 430) seconds.
> Offline data collection
> capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
> Auto Offline data collection
> on/off support.
> Suspend Offline collection upon new
> command.
> Offline surface scan supported.
> Self-test supported.
> No 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: ( 1) minutes.
> Extended self-test routine
> recommended polling time: ( 85) minutes.
>
> 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 068 062 006 Pre-fail Always
> - 109071597
ERRORS!!!!!
> 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 096 096 000 Pre-fail Always
> - 0
> 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always
> - 0
> 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always
> - 0
> 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 066 060 030 Pre-fail Always
> - 4123130
THESE ARE WHAT YOU'VE BEEN SEEING
> 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always
> - 543
> 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always
> - 0
> 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always
> - 21
> 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 037 040 000 Old_age Always
> - 37
> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 068 062 000 Old_age Always
> - 109071597
The error correction is being used heavily to make up for the short
comings of the drive.
> 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
>
> SMART Error Log Version: 1
> ATA Error Count: 1
> CR = Command Register [HEX]
> FR = Features Register [HEX]
> SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
> SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
> CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
> CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
> DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
> DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
> ER = Error register [HEX]
> ST = Status register [HEX]
> Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
> DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
> SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.
>
> Error 1 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 519 hours (21 days + 15 hours)
> When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active
> or idle.
>
> After command completion occurred, registers were:
> ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
> -- -- -- -- -- -- --
> 40 51 08 32 ec 12 e0 Error: UNC 8 sectors at LBA = 0x0012ec32 = 1240114
>
> Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
> CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
> 25 00 08 32 ec 12 e0 00 18:59:19.206 READ DMA EXT
> 35 00 08 fa 36 f9 e0 00 18:59:18.933 WRITE DMA EXT
> 35 00 08 fa 14 fe e0 00 18:59:18.912 WRITE DMA EXT
> 35 00 88 72 14 fe e0 00 18:59:18.909 WRITE DMA EXT
> 35 00 08 0a c8 bf e0 00 18:59:18.892 WRITE DMA EXT
>
> SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
> Num Test_Description Status Remaining
> LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
> # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 540
> -
>
> SMART 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.
>
>
>
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