Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-02-07 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On 7 February 2015 17:25:22 CET, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: A little update on this drive for those interested. I get this now. root@fireball / # smartctl --all /dev/sdd smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976 [x86_64-linux-3.16.3-gentoo] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-14,

Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-02-07 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Howdy, This is concerning a hard drive I had issues with a while back. I been using it to do backups with as a test if nothing else. Anyway, it seems to have issues once again. A little update on this drive for those interested. I get this now. root@fireball / # smartctl

Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-02-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 7 February 2015 17:25:22 CET, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Dale wrote: Howdy, This is concerning a hard drive I had issues with a while back. I been using it to do backups with as a test if nothing else. Anyway, it seems to have issues once again. A little update on this drive

Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-01-25 Thread Bob Wya
It would be far better to use Spinrite (like I mentioned before) - to allow a really low level access to the drive. While Spinrite is running the HDD will not be able to automatically relocate sectors. I've been blown away how effective this piece of software is - even when run with (apparently)

Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-01-25 Thread Mick
On Saturday 24 Jan 2015 18:18:36 Dale wrote: Since I already replaced this drive, nothing lost. We did learn something tho. Just because it claims to have fixed itself doesn't mean it will be a long term solution. ;-) Dale :-) :-) Your repeated dd action probably relocated some bad

Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-01-25 Thread Dale
Bob Wya wrote: It would be far better to use Spinrite (like I mentioned before) - to allow a really low level access to the drive. While Spinrite is running the HDD will not be able to automatically relocate sectors. I've been blown away how effective this piece of software is - even when run

Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-01-25 Thread Dale
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: On Saturday 24 Jan 2015 18:18:36 Dale wrote: Since I already replaced this drive, nothing lost. We did learn something tho. Just because it claims to have fixed itself doesn't mean it will be a long term solution. ;-) Dale :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-01-24 Thread Dale
Nils Holland wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 11:29:53AM -0600, Dale wrote: Well, I have dd'd the thing a few times and ran the tests again, it still gives errors. What's odd, they seem to move around. Is there a bug crawling around in my drive?? lol # 1 Extended offlineCompleted:

Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-01-24 Thread Nils Holland
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 11:29:53AM -0600, Dale wrote: Well, I have dd'd the thing a few times and ran the tests again, it still gives errors. What's odd, they seem to move around. Is there a bug crawling around in my drive?? lol # 1 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 40%

Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-01-24 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Howdy, This is concerning a hard drive I had issues with a while back. I been using it to do backups with as a test if nothing else. Anyway, it seems to have issues once again. SNIP Since this is the 2nd time for this specific drive, thoughts? By the way, I'm doing a dd

Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-01-21 Thread Bob Wya
Dale, As a double check I always like to test failing drives with Spinrite: https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm If that software can't recover/access any bits of the drive - it's pretty much a toaster in my book! Robert On 20 January 2015 at 17:58, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy,

[gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-01-20 Thread Dale
Howdy, This is concerning a hard drive I had issues with a while back. I been using it to do backups with as a test if nothing else. Anyway, it seems to have issues once again. root@fireball / # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdd smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976 [x86_64-linux-3.16.3-gentoo] (local

Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-01-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/20/2015 09:58 AM, Dale wrote: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 116 099 006Pre-fail Always - 114620384 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 053 051 036Pre-fail Always - 62752 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 088 088 000Old_age