Re: Hard drive testing?

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 03:37:49PM -0600, Wolfgang wrote:
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED
> WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age
> Always       -       5
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   200   200   000    Old_age
> Offline      -       5

That's a bad drive.

> SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
> Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)
> LBA_of_first_error
> # 1  Short offline       Completed: read failure       90%       970
> 31290205
> # 2  Short offline       Completed: read failure       90%       970
> 31290205
> # 3  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       90%       970
> 31290205
> # 4  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       90%       970
> 31290205
> # 5  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       90%       970
> 31290205
> # 6  Short offline       Completed: read failure       90%       222
> 32454051
> # 7  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       90%       220
> 32454051
> # 8  Conveyance offline  Completed: read failure       90%       220
> 32454051

And all those are clear indications of a bad drive.  And it looks like
you didn't see the early failures.  (Note the tests at 220 hours, then
again at 970 hours.)

If you ran Fedora with this drive connected, it should have screamed at
you about a drive failing...

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