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From: Ian Bloss <ianlinkcd@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 01:18:44
Message-Id: CADopNUf9xc4JUUZ3r6teN0STnbDx4g8JbfBUAsQghkP2RKbApg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise by Dale
1 If it's under warranty you can return it because it's clicking. You just
2 have to be "persuasive"...
3
4 On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 20:16 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
5
6 > Adam Carter wrote:
7 > > See if SMART knows anything - run this against each drive (change $DRV
8 > > to sda etc each time)
9 > >
10 > > smartctl -a /dev/$DRV | egrep
11 > >
12 > '(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_C|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sect|Offline_Uncorre)'
13 >
14 >
15 > It's currently running the test on most of these. The sdd drive is the
16 > new one. The sdc drive is the same model but a couple years old, which
17 > is why I bought this one since the last one was working fine. The sda/b
18 > drives are WD of different sizes. sda has the OS on it and I think it
19 > is the black type. Sdb is a small backup drive that I copy things like
20 > family photos and such too. Yea, I also have DVD backups that are not
21 > here at the house. Here is the output:
22 >
23 >
24 > root@fireball / # smartctl -a /dev/sdd | egrep
25 >
26 > '(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_C|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sect|Offline_Uncorre)'
27 > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
28 > UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
29 > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail
30 > Always - 0
31 > 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
32 > Always - 0 0 0
33 > 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age
34 > Always - 0
35 > 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age
36 > Offline - 0
37 > root@fireball / # smartctl -a /dev/sdc | egrep
38 >
39 > '(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_C|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sect|Offline_Uncorre)'
40 > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
41 > UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
42 > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail
43 > Always - 0
44 > 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
45 > Always - 0 0 0
46 > 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age
47 > Always - 0
48 > 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age
49 > Offline - 0
50 > root@fireball / # smartctl -a /dev/sdb | egrep
51 >
52 > '(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_C|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sect|Offline_Uncorre)'
53 > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
54 > UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
55 > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail
56 > Always - 0
57 > 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
58 > Always - 0
59 > 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age
60 > Always - 0
61 > 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age
62 > Offline - 0
63 > root@fireball / # smartctl -a /dev/sda | egrep
64 >
65 > '(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_C|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sect|Offline_Uncorre)'
66 > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
67 > UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
68 > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail
69 > Always - 0
70 > 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age
71 > Always - 0
72 > 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age
73 > Offline - 0
74 > root@fireball / #
75 >
76 >
77 >
78 > That looks OK to me BUT it is currently running the test. What I may do
79 > is redo the file system and copy a new set of backups over to it. Sort
80 > of give it a bit of a workout and see if that spots anything. I bet as
81 > it is, they won't let me return it or anything. It is working, just
82 > making that noise.
83 >
84 > Dale
85 >
86 > :-) :-)
87 >
88 >
89 >