On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Alex Schuster <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mark Knecht writes:
>
>> Yes, I do use smartctl on some other machines although I'm not very
>> good about it and your write-up is helpful so thanks for that.
>>
>> My wife's machines is older and and I don't think SMART is
>> supported on her drive. Note the lack of a * on the SMART line in
>> hdparm -I:
>
> Okay, but it still states:
>
>> * SMART error logging
>> * SMART self-test
>
> So maybe smartctl -t long /dev/hda still works? Just give it a try.
No, -t long fails the same way. Basically every time I try to use
smartctl on the drive it seems to issue one of these 3-line reports
about SectorIDNotFound in dmesg. My other machines don't do this. Not
a good sign I think...
hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound },
LBAsect=16777008, sector=18446744073709551615
hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xb0
hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound },
LBAsect=262192, sector=18446744073709551615
hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xb0
hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=48,
sector=18446744073709551615
hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xb0
These command create the same sort of lines in dmesg:
dragonfly ~ # smartctl -i /dev/hda
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Caviar family
Device Model: WDC WD1600BB-00FTA0
Serial Number: WD-WMAES2091586
Firmware Version: 15.05R15
User Capacity: 160,041,885,696 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 6
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Fri Feb 26 08:49:00 2010 PST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Disabled
SMART Disabled. Use option -s with argument 'on' to enable it.
dragonfly ~ # smartctl -P show /dev/hda
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Drive found in smartmontools Database. Drive identity strings:
MODEL: WDC WD1600BB-00FTA0
FIRMWARE: 15.05R15
match smartmontools Drive Database entry:
MODEL REGEXP: ^WDC WD(2|3|4|6|8|10|12|16|18|20|25)00BB-.*$
FIRMWARE REGEXP: .*
MODEL FAMILY: Western Digital Caviar family
ATTRIBUTE OPTIONS: None preset; no -v options are required.
dragonfly ~ #
<SNIP>
>>
>> I've not tried the -T permissive options.
>
> I would :) There is also a BIOS setting for SMART, but I think this does
> not matter here, and it's only for being able to report a failing drive
> before booting.
Tried -T permissive and -T verypermissive. Same result. More lines and
told it's not turning on.
Could this have ANYTHING to do with kernel configuation? Is there
anything required at the kernel level that I might not have turned on?
>
>> I've never used badblocks as it seems I should only do that off-line.
>> This might be a good time to boot with a CD and try it out.
>
> In read-only mode, you can use it when the system is running. Only the
> write test (option -n) refuses to run if partitions are mounted from the
> drive. So I'd do the 'badblocks -sv /dev/hda' right now, if you do not
> need the drive at full speed for a while. You can interrupt it at any
> point with Ctrl-Z and continue with the fg command.
>
OK, I've started that test and will report back later what it says.
Thanks!
- Mark
