Hello, I'm interested in your personal experiences with SMART and smartctl. Aside from experiencing crashes related to faulty IDE/SATA cables, my hard disks seem perfectly fine (e.g. no bad sectors). I conclude this because of the following:
-e2fsck/fsck doesn't show anything wrong in my ext3/ufs partitions -chckdsk.exe doesn't show anything wrong in my ntfs partition -seatools doesn't show anything wrong in it's overview of seagate hard drives. No bad sectors,etc. -smartctl -i selftest /dev/hd[abd] and smartctl -i -d ata /dev/sd[ab] show no errors with the SMART tests I've run so far. These include short and long tests, though I still have to try out the conveyance test. -The "When Failed" column for each hard disks when running smartctl -A is all blank. -no evidence in /var/log/messages and /var/log/kern.log of bad sectors. However... Running smartctl -l error <device> shows that all of the drives have experienced some errors since put into use. Naturally, the older drives have much more errors than the newer ones. All these errors (across all drives) basically have the following form: 84 51 8b 7f 2b 69 44 Error: ICRC, ABRT 139 sectors at LBA = 0x04692b7f = 74001279 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- c8 00 8b 7f 2b 69 44 00 00:00:54.750 READ DMA c8 00 11 67 2b 69 44 00 00:00:54.750 READ DMA c8 00 08 47 28 69 44 00 00:00:54.750 READ DMA c8 00 08 17 28 69 44 00 00:00:54.750 READ DMA c8 00 2e e7 27 69 44 00 00:00:54.750 READ DMA While I haven't had any problems with data loss, and all other tests do not show anything wrong....I am particularly curious about what could be causing this. Is this normal? -Paul _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
