Hi, On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:56:02AM +0100, Emanuele Olivetti wrote: > What about using a live cd and smartmontools? I had a similar > problem. Just 'smartctl -a /dev/hda' is enough to get lots of info > about the status of the hd and its problems.
good idea. > In my case few sectors died but they were (probably) in the partition > map... so my partition map disapperad and my partitions were lost. It > was not a big issue since I had to repartition in those days and > everything was backupped. After some tries (few hours?) bad sectors > were replaced by hd hardware and now my disk seems totally clean (no > more bad sectors detected). Since every disk utility is not able to > detect anomalies I think my disk is safe now. looks like mine has something worst. for the record, here is an instance of the output of 'smartctl -a /dev/hda'. cheers, paul -- smartctl version 5.32 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: TOSHIBA MK3025GAS Serial Number: 54B76586T Firmware Version: KA300B Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 6 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Mon Oct 31 11:34:03 2005 UTC SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED! Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA. See vendor-specific Attribute list for failed Attributes. General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 149) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x1b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. No Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. No General Purpose Logging support. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 30) minutes. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 100 100 001 Pre-fail Always - 769 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 9011 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 001 001 050 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 1023 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 088 088 000 Old_age Always - 4919 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0033 253 100 030 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1098 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 69 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 093 093 000 Old_age Always - 75583 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 40 (Lifetime Min/Max 15/60) 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 247 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 220 Disk_Shift 0x0002 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 150 222 Loaded_Hours 0x0032 091 091 000 Old_age Always - 3898 223 Load_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 224 Load_Friction 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 226 Load-in_Time 0x0026 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 129 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0001 100 100 001 Pre-fail Offline - 0 Warning: device does not support General Purpose Logging SMART Error Log Version: 1 ATA Error Count: 389 (device log contains only the most recent five errors) CR = Command Register [HEX] FR = Features Register [HEX] SC = Sector Count Register [HEX] SN = Sector Number Register [HEX] CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX] CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX] DH = Device/Head Register [HEX] DC = Device Command Register [HEX] ER = Error register [HEX] ST = Status register [HEX] Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes, SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days. Error 389 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 4918 hours (204 days + 22 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 04 11 00 85 5a 67 e3 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- ec 00 00 9c 5b 67 e0 00 00:14:55.742 IDENTIFY DEVICE 35 00 d8 c5 5a 67 e0 00 00:13:58.386 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 d0 f5 59 67 e0 00 00:13:58.382 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 b8 3d 58 67 e0 00 00:13:58.277 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 e8 55 57 67 e0 00 00:13:58.173 WRITE DMA EXT Error 388 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 4918 hours (204 days + 22 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 04 51 00 74 5b 67 e0 Error: ABRT at LBA = 0x00675b74 = 6773620 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- 35 00 b0 c5 57 67 e0 00 00:26:53.269 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 b0 c5 57 67 e0 00 00:26:35.999 WRITE DMA EXT 10 00 3f 00 00 00 e0 00 00:26:35.996 RECALIBRATE [OBS-4] 35 00 b0 c5 57 67 e0 00 00:26:27.783 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 b0 c5 57 67 e0 00 00:26:21.904 WRITE DMA EXT Error 387 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 4918 hours (204 days + 22 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 04 51 00 74 5b 67 e0 Error: ABRT at LBA = 0x00675b74 = 6773620 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- 35 00 b0 c5 57 67 e0 00 00:26:35.999 WRITE DMA EXT 10 00 3f 00 00 00 e0 00 00:26:35.996 RECALIBRATE [OBS-4] 35 00 b0 c5 57 67 e0 00 00:26:27.783 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 b0 c5 57 67 e0 00 00:26:21.904 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 e0 e5 56 67 e0 00 00:26:21.812 WRITE DMA EXT Error 386 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 4918 hours (204 days + 22 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 04 51 00 74 5b 67 e0 Error: ABRT at LBA = 0x00675b74 = 6773620 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- 35 00 b0 c5 57 67 e0 00 00:26:21.904 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 e0 e5 56 67 e0 00 00:26:21.812 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 e0 e5 56 67 e0 00 00:26:12.553 WRITE DMA EXT 25 00 08 00 00 00 e0 00 00:25:52.921 READ DMA EXT 25 00 08 38 3e 7e e0 00 00:25:52.921 READ DMA EXT Error 385 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 4918 hours (204 days + 22 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 04 51 00 c4 57 67 e0 Error: ABRT at LBA = 0x006757c4 = 6772676 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- 35 00 e0 e5 56 67 e0 00 00:26:12.553 WRITE DMA EXT 25 00 08 00 00 00 e0 00 00:25:52.921 READ DMA EXT 25 00 08 38 3e 7e e0 00 00:25:52.921 READ DMA EXT 25 00 08 30 3e 7e e0 00 00:25:52.921 READ DMA EXT 25 00 08 20 3e 7e e0 00 00:25:52.921 READ DMA EXT SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] Device does not support Selective Self Tests/Logging -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
