Someone mentioned that my HD might be on its way out, in response to the strange errors I described earlier. So I went and ran some SMART tests, and they all came back negative.. but the general SMART stats looked kind of iffy, so I wanted to post them here and find out if anyone had any comments, since I really don't completely know what I'm looking at here. Some of the numbers seem high, but I don't know whether high is good or bad.. :-P
Here's the complete output of smartctl -a /dev/hda:
smartctl version 5.21 Copyright (C) 2002-3 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: ST320413A Serial Number: 7ED2Y9PT Firmware Version: 3.40 Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 5 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Thu Dec 16 08:43:02 2004 EST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was
completed without error.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 422) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x1b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
No Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 23) minutes.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000e 054 048 025 Old_age ys - 101257730
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0002 083 077 000 Old_age ys - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age ys - 357
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0032 099 099 036 Old_age ys - 46
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000e 075 060 030 Old_age ys - 34823207
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 094 094 000 Old_age ys - 5904
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 100 097 Old_age ys - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age ys - 514
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 037 054 000 Old_age ys - 37
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 056 051 000 Old_age ys - 187358950
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age ys - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age line - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age ys - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age line - 0
202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age ys - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 4 -
Thanks y'all.. I guess I should just start looking into getting a replacement drive anyhow.. but I wanted some expert advice.
Cheers, ~Brian
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Brian A. Henning
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