is this hard drive dying?

2012-09-13 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
1) The man page of smartctl is not much helpful in figuring out what various fields in the output of smartctl -a stand for. For example, what does fields such as Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Seek_Error_Rate, Hardware_ECC_Recovered, Multi_Zone_Error_Rate mean? Is there any page that describes all these

Re: is this hard drive dying?

2012-09-13 Thread David
On 13/09/2012, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: 1) The man page of smartctl is not much helpful in figuring out what various fields in the output of smartctl -a stand for. For example, what does fields such as Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Seek_Error_Rate, Hardware_ECC_Recovered,

Re: is this hard drive dying?

2012-09-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/09/12 07:48 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: 1) The man page of smartctl is not much helpful in figuring out what various fields in the output of smartctl -a stand for. For example, what does fields such as Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Seek_Error_Rate, Hardware_ECC_Recovered, Multi_Zone_Error_Rate

Re: is this hard drive dying?

2012-09-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 07:48:46AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: 1) The man page of smartctl is not much helpful in figuring out what various fields in the output of smartctl -a stand for. For example, what does fields such as Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Seek_Error_Rate,

Re: is this hard drive dying?

2012-09-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: 2) Can someone please tell me if this hard drive is dying. The following is the difference between two smartctl outputs that are a week apart. 58c58 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 046Pre-fail Always - 74727 --- 1

Re: is this hard drive dying?

2012-09-13 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:48:46 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: 1) The man page of smartctl is not much helpful in figuring out what various fields in the output of smartctl -a stand for. For example, what does fields such as Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Seek_Error_Rate, Hardware_ECC_Recovered,

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please turn your line wraps on to something like 72 columns instead of 1 paragraph. On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 08:12:48AM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: I had these exact same error messages, starting about two weeks ago. I assumed the hard drive was

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-25 Thread Klaus Imgrund
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:16:28PM -, Andrew Pritchard wrote: Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=3994439, sector=63232 Mar 24

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-25 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen a lot of these types of messages: Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:16:28PM -, Andrew Pritchard wrote: Does this mean my drive is dying? I've not had any problems with the machine till now. If you don't have hdparm spinning down your drives, odds are you are looking at the early

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-25 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:32:13AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:16:28PM -, Andrew Pritchard wrote: Does this mean my drive is dying? I've not had any problems with the machine till now. If you don't have hdparm

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-25 Thread Robert Storey
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 22:16:28 - Andrew Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen a lot of these types of messages: Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 24

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-25 Thread Daniel B.
Andrew Pritchard wrote: I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen a lot of these types of messages: Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-25 Thread Sharninder
You should probably disable IDE DMA (see hdparm) immediately. If kernel IDE problems are your problem, that should prevent additional corruption. also start using smartsuite utilities. they are a part of woody atleast. Sharninder Singh National Institute Of Management, Calcutta

Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-24 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen a lot of these types of messages: Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=3994439,

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-24 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:16:28PM -, Andrew Pritchard wrote: I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen a lot of these types of messages: Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 24 17:14:51 orion

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-24 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Mon, 2003-03-24 um 23.16 schrieb Andrew Pritchard: [...] Does this mean my drive is dying? I've not had any problems with the machine till now. Hate to say it, but yes it looks like you'd better get a backup done. Or try to mkfs the entire drive (delete and recreate all partitions). That

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-24 Thread nate
Andrew Pritchard said: I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen a lot of these types of messages: Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:16:28PM -, Andrew Pritchard wrote: Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=3994439, sector=63232 Mar 24 17:14:51 orion

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-24 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:06:43PM -0800, nate wrote: Andrew Pritchard said: I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen a lot of these types of messages: Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 24

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Andrew Pritchard wrote: I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen a lot of these types of messages: Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: