[plug] Failing disk drive

[Richard Meyer]

They were both moved out of a system that was mysteriously locking up
solid, so I wasn't too surprised when I got the first message, because
there had been "relay" noises coming from the machine all day, but after
moving the data to the second drive (and the relay sounds went away).
Getting the same message 2 days later seemed an unlikely coincidence.

I did play with Smartctl, but the numbers don't mean terribly much to
me, unfortunately.

I think I'll try new cables. Will a new set of cables "magically" reset
the SMART stats?

Thanks
RM

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 18:48 -0700, Fred Janon wrote:
> 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
> > >
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It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. 
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