On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 15:45 +0200, Noam Rathaus wrote: > Hi, > > I am receiving the following from one of my SCSI devices: > # smartctl -a /dev/sda > smartctl version 5.32 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen [...] > Device supports SMART and is Disabled [...]
Try executing ``smartctl --smart=on /dev/sda`` to enable it and then repeating ``smartctl -a /dev/sda``. It might give you more information (it gives for my disk and my SMART support is enabled). > SMART Health Status: HARDWARE IMPENDING FAILURE DATA ERROR RATE TOO HIGH [...] > Error counter log: > Errors Corrected Total Total Correction Gigabytes > Total > delay: [rereads/ errors algorithm processed > uncorrected > minor | major rewrites] corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] > errors > read: 0 5486 63 0 0 2306.115 > 63 > write: 0 1 0 0 0 2267.546 > 0 > > Non-medium error count: 16 [...] > What does it mean: HARDWARE IMPENDING FAILURE DATA ERROR RATE TOO HIGH > > Is the disk bad? > According to this, it has experienced many read errors, so it appears it is on its way to die (and it's already causing long delays on read errors, which might annoy you). It's a good idea to backup everything from this HD. You might want to replace it now but that depends on your tolerance for problems (and budget). BTW, you can configure smartd to alert you via email or other means when it detects further problems. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
