[plug] Failing disk drive

[Fred Janon]

Or cables...

--- Denis Brown <dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> Hello Richard.
> 
> I suspect this is too simplistic an answer but smartctl is the tool
> to 
> use.   smartctl --help for example or this 
> page:    http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/man/smartctl.8.html
> 
> As to simultaneous drive failure...  Possible I guess (bad batch) but
> I 
> would probably be looking for more of a common factor such as power
> supply 
> or cooling.  ???
> 
> HTH,
> Denis
> 
> 
>   At 09:11 PM 14/04/2008, you wrote:
> >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
> >
> >Linux Counter user #306629
> >
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