S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Datum: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:29:42 -0500
Von: James Garrison <jhg@...>
An: smartmontools-support@...
Betreff: [smartmontools-support] WDC WD1600JS unknown attribute 190 question

> I did a google search and found some postings that indicate attributes 
> 190 and
> 194 both indicate the current temperature in degrees celsius.  Is this 
> also true
> for WD SATA drives?  I recently leased a dedicated server at cari.net and
> get the following when running smartctl.  Everything looks normal except
> 190 and 194.  If they're really temperature, then there's a serious
> problem with cooling.  I want to be sure this is true before I submit a
> support request to them.
> 

Yes, Attribute 190 in WD drives seems to be temperature with a 
threshold at 55 degrees, Bruce made some comments about this recently.

And yes, you have a problem. See the "FAILING_NOW" message, which
means that WD considers this as "no good".

regards,
Manfred


> > 190 Unknown_Attribute       0x0022   040   024   045    Old_age   
> > Always   FAILING_NOW 60
> > 194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   087   071   000    Old_age   
> > Always       -       60

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The datacenter reports that the disk is only warm to the touch.
Is there a possibility that the SATA disk is returning different
raw values?  I had to specify "-d ata" to get smartctl to work.
Without this option, I get

> [jhg@... ~]$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
> sudo:
> smartctl version 5.33 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 
> Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
> Device: ATA      WDC WD1600JS-55M Version: 10.0
>
> SATA disks accessed via libata are not currently supported by
> smartmontools. When libata is given an ATA pass-thru ioctl() then an
> additional '-d libata' device type will be added to smartmontools.


Manfred Schwarb wrote:
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:29:42 -0500
> Von: James Garrison <jhg@...>
> An: smartmontools-support@...
> Betreff: [smartmontools-support] WDC WD1600JS unknown attribute 190 question
>
>   
>> I did a google search and found some postings that indicate attributes 
>> 190 and
>> 194 both indicate the current temperature in degrees celsius.  Is this 
>> also true
>> for WD SATA drives?  I recently leased a dedicated server at cari.net and
>> get the following when running smartctl.  Everything looks normal except
>> 190 and 194.  If they're really temperature, then there's a serious
>> problem with cooling.  I want to be sure this is true before I submit a
>> support request to them.
>>
>>     
>
> Yes, Attribute 190 in WD drives seems to be temperature with a 
> threshold at 55 degrees, Bruce made some comments about this recently.
>
> And yes, you have a problem. See the "FAILING_NOW" message, which
> means that WD considers this as "no good".
>
> regards,
> Manfred
>
>
>   
>>> 190 Unknown_Attribute       0x0022   040   024   045    Old_age   
>>> Always   FAILING_NOW 60
>>> 194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   087   071   000    Old_age   
>>> Always       -       60
>>>       
>
>   

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