[plug] Hdd probs

[quadfour at iinet.net.au]

Hi Craig.

I've attached the log of some errors I gave to my distributor. When you get to
drive error log, the drive time at the time I powered down was 5119, so I got a
few hours out of it before it died altogether. Still, I should be happy, the
replacment I got is a ST380011A which is faster than the original ST380023A I had.

Regards
Michael Collard

Quoting Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au>:

> On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 22:52, Michael Collard wrote:
> > Hiya Pluggers, I write this email on my barely working system. My 80Gb
> > HDD (seagate) seems to not like reading/writing properly any more, I
> > suspect it has bad sectors somehow. Thought I'd take this time while my
> > complete system backs up, while it is still possible, to ask if anyone
> > else has had problems with these 80Gb Seagate drivers?
> 
> I have a couple of 80GB SATA Seagates, as well as 120GB models. One of
> my 80GB drives may be in the process of failing:
> 
> [root at bucket root]# smartctl -d 3ware,0 -H /dev/sda
> smartctl version 5.27 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> 
> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
> SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
> Please note the following marginal Attributes:
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE     
> UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   046   029   030    Pre-fail 
> Always   In_the_past 12210694997685
> 
> ... not that it really means much. After all, the other one appears to
> be doing fine:
> [root at bucket root]# smartctl -d 3ware,1 -a /dev/sda 2>&1 | grep Seek
>   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   079   060   030    Pre-fail 
> Always       -       87332504
> 
> as are the 3 120GB models:
> [root at bucket root]# smartctl -d 3ware,2 -a /dev/sda 2>&1 | grep Seek
>   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   085   064   030    Pre-fail 
> Always       -       383946881
> [root at bucket root]# smartctl -d 3ware,3 -a /dev/sda 2>&1 | grep Seek
>   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   085   064   030    Pre-fail 
> Always       -       383161113
> [root at bucket root]# smartctl -d 3ware,4 -a /dev/sda 2>&1 | grep Seek
>   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   085   064   030    Pre-fail 
> Always       -       380610482
> 
> ... and I haven't heard anything about high failure rates in modern
> Seagate disks. When you say it has bad sectors - do you get errors in
> the kernel log (`dmesg`) about it failing to read/write certain sectors?
> What errors /do/ you see?
> 
> Can you send the output of:
> # smartctl -a /dev/hdx 
> (you may need to install smartmontools)?
> 
> I've answered a couple of posts recently about disk testing, too - check
> out the archives.
> 
> Craig Ringer
> 
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