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 :-) :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
