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I think one of my drives is on its way out, tho I've never seen a |
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drive fail like this before. Drive is a year old WD 640G & I use it |
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as my system drive. Via SMART, I've been doing daily short & weekly |
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long tests since I installed it. Starting last week I woke up to my |
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keyboard lights blinking and the sound of the heads thrashing & the |
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drive repeatedly attempting to spin up. On my desktop the mouse was |
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still moving but any command (dmesg, less /var/log/messages) resulted |
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in an IO error. I restarted the computer and everything came up fine. |
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I dug through the logs but there were no IO errors of any sort to be |
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found. All I could see was that the extended SMART test successfully |
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started (from smartd.log): |
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Jun 6 03:10:31 void smartd[5056]: Device: |
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/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD6400AAKS-22A7B0_WD-WMASY0830809, starting |
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scheduled Long Self-Test. |
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But then it failed to complete (from smartctl -a): |
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# 7 Extended offline Interrupted (host reset) 50% 7699 - |
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None of the other SMART attributes indicate any other potential. I |
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used my computer with no problems all week thinking perhaps it was a |
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fluke. This morning I woke to an similar situation as last week. The |
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smartd log indicated that the extended test had started, but oddly |
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enough smartctl has no record of the test starting. |
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I'm going to purchase a replacement drive today. My data is backed up |
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but the entire system is not, if it completely failed I'd need to do a |
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re-install & would prefer to avoid that. I understand SMART can't |
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detect every sort of drive failure, is this possibly one of those |
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situations? I'd like to get the manufacturer to replace the drive, |
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but I suspect I'll need something more concrete than a 'failed |
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extended SMART test' to convince them of this. Any suggestions? At |
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the very least I'll be giving it a couple passes of badblocks -vw. |
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Wil |