[plug] Failing disk drive

[Richard Meyer]

Hi all,

I've been having fun with my system hanging, and so just to get it over
with, I bought a new motherboard and memory and installed the old disk
drives.

Now I' getting the following:
> Apr 14 21:04:36 Selous smartd[4162]: Device: /dev/sda, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW!
> Apr 14 21:04:36 Selous smartd[4162]: Device: /dev/sdb, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW!
> Apr 14 21:04:36 Selous smartd[4162]: Device: /dev/sdb, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct changed from 137 to 135
> Apr 14 21:04:36 Selous smartd[4162]: Device: /dev/sdb, SMART Usage Attribute: 196 Reallocated_Event_Count changed from 93 to 90

How do I see the SMART stats, and how likely is it that 2 disks would
fail "at the same time"? OK, sda failed a couple of days ago, and I
moved the data off of it.


-- 
Richard Meyer
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. 
William Pitt, 1783

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