[ale] Errors & Celsius, WAS: Re: Spinrite, or BIOS, or something drops hdd error rate 5X

Tom Freeman tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Sat Jan 8 23:27:01 EST 2011



On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, Jeff Hubbs wrote:

> I'd surmise that one temp is being taken on the board close to the edge
> and that the other is being taken inside the enclosure...but >100C
> sounds a little oddly high but maybe that's normal for a very limited
> area in there.
>
> By the way...
>
> <pedantry>The only way you can say one temperature is "twice" another
> numerically is if you are using Kelvin and not degrees Celsius or
> Fahrenheit.</pedantry>

   <more pedantry> You could also use Rankin, which is another absolute 
scale. </pedantry>

>
> On 1/8/11 8:08 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>> On 01/07/2011 02:51 PM, Ron Frazier wrote:
>>> Just thought I'd pass along some interesting results I'm getting while
>>> running Spinrite (as discussed on prior thread "Which large capacity
>>> drives are you having the best luck with?") on a new drive I just
>>> bought.  The utility is doing a very intensive non destructive surface
>>> analysis of the whole drive, using numerous read / write data patterns.
>> I was just looking at my logs, and I'm not sure if it means anything,
>> and I don't know the difference between Airflow_temperature&
>> temperature celsius, but my MAIN drive temp seems to be twice that of my
>> 2nd drive..
>> there was no entry in the syslog for sda with raw_read_error_rate... nor
>> the Hardware_ECC_Recovered.
>>
>> Jan  8 07:59:54 paulandcilla smartd[4605]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Usage
>> Attribute: 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel changed from 63 to 62
>> Jan  8 07:59:54 paulandcilla smartd[4605]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Usage
>> Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 113 to 112
>> Jan  8 07:59:54 paulandcilla smartd[4605]: Device: /dev/sdb, SMART
>> Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed from 103 to 99
>> Jan  8 07:59:54 paulandcilla smartd[4605]: Device: /dev/sdb, SMART Usage
>> Attribute: 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel changed from 56 to 55
>> Jan  8 07:59:54 paulandcilla smartd[4605]: Device: /dev/sdb, SMART Usage
>> Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 44 to 45
>> Jan  8 07:59:54 paulandcilla smartd[4605]: Device: /dev/sdb, SMART Usage
>> Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed from 59 to 60
>>
>>
>>
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