Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Arno Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.periphs.hdd Subject: Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Date: 22 Oct 2014 22:43:20 GMT Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net ioM7zANDJwueFZ5wzhEb5gEbZ9oQH9ERTw3uqDF9/HuwtLTA== X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:QqIl4h1HvU4FnFLnumEblUVFfis= User-Agent: tin/2.1.1-20120623 ("Mulindry") (UNIX) (Linux/3.14.15works (x86_64)) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.hardware:2551 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage:5937 In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ant wrote: > In alt.comp.periphs.hdd Ant wrote: >> > >> There's no "great hole" in my theory, Rod. You were looking at the >> > >> history of tests that were run _before_ the bad sector was reallocated. >> > > >> > > Dunno, his original list, which still had the offline uncorrectable >> > > showing, had got quite a few extended tests that had completed >> > > without error >> > Check the timestamps. The previous successful extended tests were run >> > much earlier, probably before the bad sector was detected. >> Yeah, my Linux/Debian box's smartctld detected them on Saturday's early >> morning. I never had any issues before that. So far, I haven't gotten >> any new ones after that morning. > I'm back again. Yesterday, I decided to repartition my HDD to remove > most of its old partitions and resize one of big one to make more free > disk space with gtparted. The issue came back again after the long disk > process (no errors seen) according to e-mails. So, I reran > GSmartControl's tests. Short passed and long failed after a few minutes > like before. Here are the results: > http://pastie.org/pastes/9662092/text?key=cfat9p1fn8a740kx57qbja ... Is > it me or is "SMART Self-test log structure" section out of chronological > order based on its LifeTime(hours)? That one is simple: 64k hours maximum (16 bit unsigned) and it rolled over. Arno > Thank you in advance. :) > -- > Quote of the Week: "Even an ant can hurt an elephant." --Proverb > /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) > / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net > | |o o| | > \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. If crediting, > ( ) then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link.