I had a power failure last night. The UPS alarms woke me up and I powered down the systems. (some day I really will automate shutdowns) It's also been quite hot (90 F) in the room where the computer is.
At boot the BIOS on the HP Z400 running Solaris 10 reported: 1720 SMART drive detects imminent failure failing drive SATA 1 (black) failing attribute # 05 The drive is a year old 3 TB Hitachi that I use for a scratch drive. "zpool scrub" showed no errors. Nothing critical on the disk I just use it to hold intermediate files when working on large datasets. Unfortunately, "apropos smart" produced nothing useful. Where would I find more information? Particularly interaction between ZFS & SMART. There have apparently been some firmware issues that produce spurious warnings, but HP is so Windows centric it's hard to make any sense out of their support site. Is there a Solaris/OI utility for reading the SMART information or doing other diagnosis? The message relates to automatic bad block reallocation. Would running a scan using format(1m) and mapping out the bad blocks be likely to correct this? That is what we did way back when. Though I hate to think how long a scan of 3 TB would take. Comments or suggestions? Thanks, Reg _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
