On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: > 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 > > :-) :-)
Here ya' go:
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# hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=IC25N020ATMR04-0, FwRev=MO1OAD5A, SerialNo=MRX107K1DS623H
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1740kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=17475/15/63, CurSects=16513875, LBA=yes, LBAsects=39070080
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a: ATA/ATAPI-2,3,4,5,6
* signifies the current active mode
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Regards,
Mick
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