Re: [smartmontools-support] unknown error msg - what does it mean, "SPINDLE IMPENDING FAILURE START UNIT TIMES TOO HIGH"

[Bruce A. <ba...@gr...>]

Hi Diego,

(0) The disk is reporting that something is wrong with its motor or 
bearings.  It is taking too long to spin up. So...

(1) Immediately back up any valuable data.

(2) If the disk is under warranty, have the vendor replace it as soon as 
possible.  It not under warranty, buy a new disk and start moving your 
data to it.

Cheers,
 	Bruce


On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Diego Mathis wrote:

> Hello
>
> I hope this is the correct place to ask this..
>
> I have this SPLINDLE IMPENDING... lots of time in the System log, I dont
> know what it means, I have tried to find with google something, which didnt
> help.
> I found this thread:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=4290755
> My knowledge is to limited about this, so I dont know if there has been
> posted the solution, allthough I read it through...
> Afaik there is no solution posted..
>
> Well what I want to know, if there is some action needed, or if the drive is
> wrongly configured, my best guess is that it is incorrect configured in SCSI
> utility, or maybe even a wrong jumper.. The server runs since some weeks, so
> that error seems not critical..
>
> -----
> # /usr/sbin/smartctl -H /dev/sda
> smartctl version 5.36 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce
> Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
> SMART Health Status: SPINDLE IMPENDING FAILURE START UNIT TIMES TOO HIGH
> [asc=5d, ascq=56]
> -----
> # /usr/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/sda
> smartctl version 5.36 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce
> Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
> Device: IBM      DDYS-T09170N     Version: S80D
> Serial number:         VDF6X526
> Device type: disk
> Transport protocol: Fibre channel (FCP-2)
> Local Time is: Wed Feb 21 12:01:15 2007 CET
> Device supports SMART and is Enabled
> Temperature Warning Disabled or Not Supported
> SMART Health Status: SPINDLE IMPENDING FAILURE START UNIT TIMES TOO HIGH
> [asc=5d, ascq=56]
>
> Current Drive Temperature:     48 C
> Drive Trip Temperature:        85 C
> Manufactured in week 28 of year 2000
> Current start stop count:      776 times
> Recommended maximum start stop count:  10000 times
> Elements in grown defect list: 0
>
> Error counter log:
>           Errors Corrected by           Total   Correction     Gigabytes
> Total
>               ECC          rereads/    errors   algorithm      processed
> uncorrected
>           fast | delayed   rewrites  corrected  invocations   [10^9 bytes]
> errors
> read:          0        0         0         0          0        145.358
> 0
> write:         0        0         0         0          0        241.556
> 0
> verify:        0        0         0         0          0         12.397
> 0
>
> Non-medium error count:        0
> No self-tests have been logged
> Long (extended) Self Test duration: 350 seconds [5.8 minutes]
> -----
>
>
> Thanks allot
> Diego Mathis
>
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