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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:43:58
Message-Id: 200711191534.30235.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick? by Dale
1 On Montag, 19. November 2007, Dale wrote:
2
3 AFAIK Pre-fail is not a problem. If the harddisk is close to failing you'll
4 get something this in your logs:
5
6 Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP
7 DATA NOW!_
8 Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, 785 Currently unreadable (pending)
9 sectors_
10 Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, 785 Offline uncorrectable sectors_
11
12 and something like that with smartctl -a
13
14 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0033 001 001 010 Pre-fail Always
15 FAILING_NOW 785
16 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0031 001 001 010 Pre-fail Offline
17 FAILING_NOW 785
18
19 btw, the harddisk is now 'failing' for almost two years. Playing around with
20 suspend to disk killed the sectors....
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Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick? Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>