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Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed?

From "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage, alt.comp.periphs.hdd
Subject Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed?
Date 2014-04-20 06:56 +1000
Message-ID <brg69qF4vtjU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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"Ant" <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote in message 
news:B8SdnW5VSrXoJc_OnZ2dnUVZ_vednZ2d@earthlink.com...
> I ran smartctl's long test and waited about an hour.
>
> I got this e-mail in the beginning of the test:
>
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 09:55:41 -0700
> From: root <root@MyLinuxBox>
> To: root@MyLinuxBox
> Subject: SMART error (SelfTest) detected on host: MyLinuxBox
>
> This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on:
>
>    host name: MyLinuxBox
>   DNS domain: [Unknown]
>   NIS domain: (none)
>
> The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
>
> Device: /dev/sda [SAT], Self-Test Log error count increased from 0 to 1
>
> For details see host's SYSLOG.
>
> You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation.
> Another email message will be sent in 24 hours if the problem persists.
>
> --
>
> After an hour to finish its long test, I checked:
>
> From /var/log/syslog:
> ...
> Apr 19 09:45:01 MyLinuxBox /USR/SBIN/CRON[25663]: (root) CMD (command -v 
> debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
> Apr 19 09:55:01 MyLinuxBox /USR/SBIN/CRON[26267]: (root) CMD (command -v 
> debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
> Apr 19 09:55:41 MyLinuxBox smartd[3594]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 
> Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
> Apr 19 09:55:41 MyLinuxBox smartd[3594]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Offline 
> uncorrectable sectors
> Apr 19 09:55:41 MyLinuxBox smartd[3594]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART 
> Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed from 57 to 56
> Apr 19 09:55:41 MyLinuxBox smartd[3594]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART 
> Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed from 57 to 56
> Apr 19 09:55:41 MyLinuxBox smartd[3594]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], previous 
> self-test completed with error (read test element)
> Apr 19 09:55:41 MyLinuxBox smartd[3594]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], Self-Test 
> Log error count increased from 0 to 1
> Apr 19 09:55:41 MyLinuxBox smartd[3594]: Sending warning via 
> /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root ...
> Apr 19 09:55:41 MyLinuxBox smartd[3594]: Warning via 
> /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root: successful
> Apr 19 10:05:01 MyLinuxBox /USR/SBIN/CRON[26877]: (root) CMD (command -v 
> debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
> Apr 19 10:15:01 MyLinuxBox /USR/SBIN/CRON[27449]: (root) CMD (command -v 
> debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
> Apr 19 10:17:01 MyLinuxBox /USR/SBIN/CRON[27560]: (root) CMD (   cd / && 
> run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
> Apr 19 10:25:01 MyLinuxBox /USR/SBIN/CRON[27986]: (root) CMD (command -v 
> debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
> Apr 19 10:25:40 MyLinuxBox smartd[3594]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 
> Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
> Apr 19 10:25:40 MyLinuxBox smartd[3594]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Offline 
> uncorrectable sectors
> Apr 19 10:25:40 MyLinuxBox smartd[3594]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART 
> Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 39 to 38
> Apr 19 10:35:01 MyLinuxBox /USR/SBIN/CRON[28518]: (root) CMD (command -v 
> debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
> Apr 19 10:45:01 MyLinuxBox /USR/SBIN/CRON[28950]: (root) CMD (command -v 
> debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
>
> # smartctl -A /dev/sda
> smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [x86_64-linux-3.2.0-4-amd64] (local build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
>
> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
> SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
> Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED 
> WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   056   053   006    Pre-fail 
>        -       208576601
>   3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   098   098   000    Pre-fail 
>        -       0
>   4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age 
>        -       0
>   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail 
>        -       6
>   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   089   060   030    Pre-fail 
>        -       928963346
>   9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   019   019   000    Old_age 
>        -       71036
>  10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   097    Pre-fail 
>        -       0
>  12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age 
>        -       362
> 194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   038   053   000    Old_age   Always - 
> 38
> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   056   053   000    Old_age   Always - 
> 208576601
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always - 
> 1
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age 
> ne      -       1
> 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always - 
> 0
> 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age 
> ne      -       0
> 202 Data_Address_Mark_Errs  0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age   Always - 
> 0
>
> Those results look bad? :(

Not too bad if they don't keep increasing.

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