Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 12:21:45 schrieb Jape Person: > Hello, folks! > > Please help me save my old Sony VAIO desktop system. > > I have two very old Sony VAIO systems, one desktop and one > notebook. They have PATA drives. I run Debian testing (updated > every day) on them. They've run testing (as a "rolling" release > using "testing" instead of the codename in sources.list) for years. > > A few weeks ago when I upgraded smartmontools to 6.3+svn3990-1 I > started seeing warnings of uncorrectable read errors from the > e-mail notifier for both systems. The ensuing upgrades to > versions 6.3+svn4002-1 and 6.3+svn4002-2 didn't improve matters. > > I edited smartd.conf to notify only in case of an increase in > the error count for both systems. The notebook has been quiet > since then, but the desktop continued to warn me every day. > > I purchased a replacement drive (Maxtor DiamondMax 16, model > 4R120L0). I installed testing on it, ran the short and long > tests from gsmartcontrol, and saw that both tests ended > prematurely with read errors. I didn't examine the logs from > these tests, but just sent the drive back to the vendor. > > I purchased another drive of the same model from a different > vendor. I got the same results from the the short and long tests. > > This time I recorded the results of the short and long tests and > am attaching them here.
How about cabling and controller? That said, its a bit unusual at least that errors appear on two systems at about the same time. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/3598759.MorRhdcRR7@merkaba
