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On Sunday, 22 March 2020 07:53:18 GMT Stefan Schmiedl wrote: |
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> "Caveman Al Toraboran" <toraboracaveman@××××××××××.com>, 22.03.2020, 02:29: |
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> > On Saturday, March 21, 2020 8:03 PM, Stefan Schmiedl <s@×××.de> wrote: |
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> >> "Caveman Al Toraboran" toraboracaveman@××××××××××.com, 21.03.2020, 14:49: |
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> >> > questions: |
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> >> > * what's going on? |
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> >> > * how to find out? |
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> >> |
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> >> "dmesg -T" is your friend. It should show the error messages |
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> >> with their timestamps. |
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> >> |
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> >> > * how to fix? |
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> >> |
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> >> For spinning HDs: |
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> >> |
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> >> If the error messages point towards faulty sectors that can't be |
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> >> written, get a new drive and migrate your data. If the messages |
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> >> don't contain sectors, check and/or replace the cabling. If the |
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> >> problem persists, get a new drive etc... |
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> > |
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> > i get this: http://codepad.org/MVeqeBBu |
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> > it mentions "sector", but not sure if it is what you mean. |
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> Messages like |
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> >> [sda] tag#6 Sense Key : Medium Error [current] |
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> >> [sda] tag#6 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed |
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> usually point towards towards problems with the magnetic layer |
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> on the disk. These do not get better over time, they only get |
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> worse. |
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> Then we have "auto reallocate failed", which means that the HD |
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> controller tried to reassign the damaged sector to another working |
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> sector, unsuccessfully. |
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> > what do you think? |
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> If there is anything of value on the disk, get a new one right now. |
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> Good luck, |
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> s. |
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What Stefan said - the disk is on its way out and autorecovery of bad sectors |
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is failing. You could run: |
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smartctl -a /dev/sda |
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to see what errors it reports, but in the first instance if the data on this |
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disk is valuable I suggest you get another disk and *immediately* transfer all |
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useful/recoverable files off this drive. If the value of the data is not |
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high/irreplaceable, then carry on using it - it may take years and years |
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before it fails completely. |
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To reallocate a bad block on your disk and hope more won't arrive overnight, |
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have a read at this page: |
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https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/BadBlockHowto |
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