Mehul Ved wrote:
> Have you run smart[1] tests[2] on it?
>
> 1. http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> 2. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983
Thanks for the links! I have consistent failures on the drive at the
same point. I ran four tests (3 short, 1 extended). The last test was
after running 'e2fsck -c' on both partitions of the drive. On sdb5
(which was where the fault was occurring) a lot of errors were fixed.
r...@mark2:~# fdisk -lu /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000b82a1
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 63 488392064 244196001 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 189 68967044 34483428 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 68967108 488392064 209712478+ 83 Linux
r...@mark2:~# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdb
smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8
Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining
LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 2700
14364
# 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 2698
14364
# 3 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 2690
14364
# 4 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 2690
14364
I am off to get a new drive...
Thanks and regards.
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