Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

[Dale]

Mick wrote:
> This has been going on for some time, but nothing has yet gone bang!  I can't
> understand what the errors mean.  They seem to occur every other day.  The
> machine is a laptop.  Also I am not sure if these errors occurred when I
> forced a reboot a few times when a WiFi USB driver crashed and locked up my
> keyboard.  Should I be worried?
>
> ======================================================
> # cat /var/log/messages | grep Prefailure
> Dec 17 13:36:15 lappy smartd[6284]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure
> Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed from 99 to 98
> Dec 17 22:00:27 lappy smartd[6267]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure
> Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed from 98 to 99
> Dec 19 14:37:02 lappy smartd[6268]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure
> Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed from 99 to 100
> Dec 19 14:37:02 lappy smartd[6268]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure
> Attribute: 2 Throughput_Performance changed from 105 to 100
> Dec 19 14:37:02 lappy smartd[6268]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure
> Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 120 to 100
> Dec 19 16:07:01 lappy smartd[6268]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure
> Attribute: 2 Throughput_Performance changed from 100 to 105
> Dec 19 16:07:01 lappy smartd[6268]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure
> Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 100 to 116
> ======================================================
>


I get those a lot too.  I have a question, can you post the output of
hdparm -i /dev/hda .  I have two Maxtor drives and both of mine gives a
very similar error.  My Western Digital doesn't have any errors at all. 

Thanks.

Dale

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