Re: Question about SMART

2011-07-09 Thread Edik Landaveri
A few moths back I had the same error after I migrated my wife's box from CentOS to Debian 6. I run the smartcl utilities with the same results as you had. There was an icon saying that it would failed, since I couldn't find any help I bougth another hardrive to replace since I did have a backup

Re: Question about SMART

2011-07-09 Thread Alan Cox
> > destructive mode) as well as checking the NTFS one in Windows 7. No > > problems where reported. The question is should I really believe what > > SMART is telling me or is it just stupid :-) > > > > There are no disk errors reported or any other issues that might > > indicate the drive i

Re: Question about SMART

2011-07-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 10:50:54 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > Running smartctl produces: > > smartctl --all -d scsi /dev/sde > smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build) > Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net > > Device: Seaga

Re: Question about SMART

2011-07-09 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Running smartctl produces: smartctl --all -d scsi /dev/sde smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net Device: Seagate FreeAgent Go Version: 0142 Serial number: 2GE45ABA Device t

Re: Question about SMART

2011-07-09 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I have 2 Seagate FreeAgent Go 1Tb drives. These are portable drives > that get their power through USB. Both these drives are about 1 year > old. Every time I login I get a notification that both these drives may > be going bad. The reason is too many bad sectors. On

Re: Question about SMART

2011-07-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 09:33:46 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I have 2 Seagate FreeAgent Go 1Tb drives. These are portable drives > that get their power through USB. Both these drives are about 1 year > old. Every time I login I get a notification that both these drives may > be going ba

Question about SMART

2011-07-09 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I have 2 Seagate FreeAgent Go 1Tb drives. These are portable drives that get their power through USB. Both these drives are about 1 year old. Every time I login I get a notification that both these drives may be going bad. The reason is too many bad sectors. One drive is formatted as it or