Hongduc Nguyen <[email protected]> writes:
> Was hoping someone can help confirm or point me in the right direction with
> this error on my server. SDA is a brand new drive, it was replacing another
> disk which was displaying similar symptoms. Is it the motherboard, or am I
> just unlucky and got another bad drive?
Yes. It is certainly one of those, or perhaps a bad cable (or backplane)
connection in between the two. ;)
[...]
> var/log/messages:
> Device: /dev/sda, not capable of SMART self-check
> Device: /dev/sda, failed to read SMART Attribute Data
You might want to try smartctl with '-d ata' or '-d sat'[1] to enquire of the
disk the actual health status; it probably does support SMART.
That said, there are two occasions on which disks usually die: almost
immediately, and after three to five years. In this case it is quite possible
that you found a disk that failed almost immediately.
If SMART reports everything as perfectly healthy, though, you might want to
invest in replacing the cable just in case. I would swap the disk as well,
though.
Regards,
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] Either should work with 2.6.29, but I don't know when the SAT layer was
introduced, so -d ata should be more reliable on older kernels.
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