On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:48:46 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > 1) The man page of smartctl is not much helpful in figuring out what > various fields in the output of "smartctl -a" stand for. For example, > what does fields such as Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Seek_Error_Rate, > Hardware_ECC_Recovered, Multi_Zone_Error_Rate mean? Is there any page > that describes all these fields in good detail?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes > 2) Can someone please tell me if this hard drive is dying. The following > is the difference between two smartctl outputs that are a week apart. (...) We already talked about thist, right? :-? Normally, when a hard disk is dying you start noticing becasue of SMART warnings and your logs get full of badblocks messages... Whether in doubt, run the hard disk manufacturer test tools to diagnose a problem with your hdd. 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/k2sq0a$jks$6...@ger.gmane.org
