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From: Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:13:11
Message-Id: 476AD980.5050101@bellsouth.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages by Mick
1 Mick wrote:
2 > On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> <snip>
5 >> I get those a lot too. I have a question, can you post the output of
6 >> hdparm -i /dev/hda . I have two Maxtor drives and both of mine gives a
7 >> very similar error. My Western Digital doesn't have any errors at all.
8 >>
9 >> Thanks.
10 >>
11 >> Dale
12 >>
13 >> :-) :-)
14 >>
15 >
16 > Here ya' go:
17 > ====================================
18 > # hdparm -i /dev/hda
19 >
20 > /dev/hda:
21 >
22 > Model=IC25N020ATMR04-0, FwRev=MO1OAD5A, SerialNo=MRX107K1DS623H
23 > Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
24 > RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
25 > BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1740kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
26 > CurCHS=17475/15/63, CurSects=16513875, LBA=yes, LBAsects=39070080
27 > IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
28 > PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
29 > DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
30 > UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
31 > AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
32 > Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a: ATA/ATAPI-2,3,4,5,6
33 >
34 > * signifies the current active mode
35 > ====================================
36 >
37
38
39 So is it a Hitachi or IBM? I was curious since mine is a Maxtor and has
40 similar errors. I had a thread a while back. Here is some of the info
41 I was given to read.
42
43 http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
44
45 http://scottstuff.net/blog/articles/2005/01/08/anatomy-of-a-drive-failure
46
47 Maybe something will make sense.
48
49 Dale
50
51 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>