Hello Brian You might want to go to this site: http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/
Download the SeaTools Desktop Diagnostic tools. This tool should tell you if the disk is bad and if still cover by the warranty makes out the return form for you. Note requires windows create a bootable diagnostic floppy diskette. len -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Henning Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 1:05 PM To: TriLUG Subject: [TriLUG] HD failure eminent? Hi List, 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 ---------------- Brian A. Henning Strutmasters.com 866.597.2397 ---------------- -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
