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From: Ben Munat <bent@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] SMART attributes: dead hard disk ?
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:20:27
Message-Id: 453FF033.1040804@munat.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] SMART attributes: dead hard disk ? by Peter Abrahamsen
1 Yeah, I think you're right Peter.
2
3 I've been meaning to look up what the numbers mean in a smartd log
4 message. I generally see stuff like this:
5
6 Usage: Seek_Time_Performance (8) changed to 91
7 Usage: Temperature_Celsius (194) changed to 154, 163, 169
8
9 but I certainly hope my drive isn't 169 degrees Celsius!
10
11 It's probably in the man page somewhere, but I've been too lazy to look
12 it up. I just hope that the smartd devs were nice enough to make the
13 message of an actual imminent failure quite alarming.
14
15 b
16
17 Peter Abrahamsen wrote:
18 > I speak on no particular authority, but I think these are normal
19 > messages, and nothing to be too concerned about.
20 >
21 > P
22 >
23 > On 10/25/06, Nicolas MASSÉ <nicolas27.masse@×××××××.net> wrote:
24 >> Hello,
25 >>
26 >> I have one RAID 1 array with two ATA hard disks. I noticed a lots of
27 >> messages
28 >> from smartd in my logs.
29 >>
30 >> First, the CRC error count of hdc "goes up" and then "down". What do
31 >> you think
32 >> of this ?
33 >>
34 >> SMART Usage Attribute: 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count changed from 195 to 199
35 >> SMART Usage Attribute: 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count changed from 199 to 198
36 >>
37 >> Then, I have some messages regarding my first disk (hda) :
38 >>
39 >> SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 242
40 >> to 245
41 >>
42 >> This message is repeated about ten times a day.
43 >>
44 >> Do you think my disks are going to die in the next days or is smartd
45 >> confused ?
46 >>
47 >> Regards,
48 >>
49 >> --
50 >> Nicolas MASSÉ
51 >> Pour récupérer ma clef GPG:
52 >> gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 0x2A18C433
53 >> Key fingerprint: 6621 FC23 5DC7 54BA B952 316A 50B1 BC3F 2A18 C433
54 >>
55 >>
56 >>
57 >
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