On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:56:07 +0530, vishnuvardhan wrote: > *I have run the following command and it is showing the following error > for all the disks [ hda, hda1, hda2, hda5 ]* : > # smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda
Not errors "per se". It's a report of the disk activity. (...) > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health > self-assessment test result: PASSED ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That is important. It means your disk is not dying "right now" :-) > 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 100 100 062 Pre-fail Always > - 0 > 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 105 105 040 Pre-fail Offline > - 4573 > 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 253 253 033 Pre-fail Always > - 1 > 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 093 093 000 Old_age Always > - 11195 > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always > - 0 > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always > - 0 > 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 122 122 040 Pre-fail Offline > - 39 > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 065 065 000 Old_age Always > - 15650 > 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always > - 0 > 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 097 097 000 Old_age Always > - 6195 > 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x000a 099 099 000 Old_age Always > - 3 > 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 097 097 000 Old_age Always > - 247202527 > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 089 089 000 Old_age Always > - 114999 > 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 157 157 000 Old_age Always > - 35 (Lifetime Min/Max 17/50) > 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always > - 132 > 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always > - 0 > 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline > - 0 > 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always > - 0 The data of the above table is also important. Unless you see "pre-fail" attributes increasing from time to time, you should not worry (needless to say that keeping a good backup is a must on these days, regardless the healthy status of the disks). > Error 191 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 10995 hours (458 days + 3 > hours) (...) > Error 189 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 10995 hours (458 days + 3 > hours) (...) > Error 188 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 10995 hours (458 days + 3 > hours) (...) > Error 187 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 10995 hours (458 days + 3 > hours) Read that as "logs events", not warnings. New hard disks record the events and try to correct the errors in real time (i.e., bad sectors are remapped whenever possible). > *Can somebody please guide me how to proceed or the above errors are > normal ?* There are some "how to read smartcl results" articles there. For example: Linux Harddisk Monitoring with SmartMonTools (smartctl) http://www.captain.at/howto-linux-smartmontools-smartctl.php Monitoring Hard Disks with SMART http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/monitoring-hard-disks-smart BTW, I keep smartmontools daemon running and monitoring the disks status. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.08.18.08.27...@gmail.com