Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

[thegeezer]

On 06/25/2014 06:05 AM, Dale wrote:
> J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> On 25 June 2014 01:09:03 CEST, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> I run this test every once in a while.  How bad is this:
>>>
>>> root@fireball / # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc
>>> smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.14.0-gentoo] (local
>>> build)
>>> Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
>>> www.smartmontools.org
>>>
>>> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
>>> SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
>>> Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining
>>> LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
>>> # 1  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       60%
>>> 16365         2905482560
>>> # 2  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       60%
>>> 16352         2905482560
>>> # 3  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%
>>> 8044         -
>>> # 4  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%
>>> 3121         -
>>>

this is pretty bad. enough to really go and get a replacement asap, and
turn that disk off if you can.
the self test stops at the first error it comes to and in this case it
is LBA#2905482560
for calculation of where the error is check out the smartcl [1] site
which will help you to mark the block bad though the data that was in
that block is probably lost forever.
i'd also suggest you run
# smartctl -a /dev/sdc 
and paste the results here. the crucial rows are 196/197 the reallocated
sector counts and pending sector counts.
they show how many blocks have been reallocated, and also how many are
pending. this will give you a scaling factor, at the moment you are in
trouble, if these figures are very high you are in very high trouble, if
they are low you are in low trouble.

[1] http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html