Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

[Dale]

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Montag, 19. November 2007, Dale wrote:
>
> AFAIK Pre-fail is not a problem. If the harddisk is close to failing you'll
> get something this in your logs:
>
> Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP
> DATA NOW!_
> Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, 785 Currently unreadable (pending)
> sectors_
> Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, 785 Offline uncorrectable sectors_
>
> and something like that with smartctl -a
>
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0033   001   001   010    Pre-fail  Always
> FAILING_NOW 785
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0031   001   001   010    Pre-fail  Offline
> FAILING_NOW 785
>
> btw, the harddisk is now 'failing' for almost two years. Playing around with
> suspend to disk killed the sectors....
>

I found a drive to replace this one.  I'll get it installed in a month
or so.  I'll put useless stuff on this old one.

Thanks

Dale

:-)  :-) 
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