Re: [smartmontools-support] Spin_Retry_Count ... FAILING NOW - or is it?

[Tim S. <ts...@di...>]

Further news...

SeaTools whined about  SMART being tripped. Didn't have time to run a
long test...

Powered down the server then rebooted. Booted fine.

smartctl now says:


SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   112   097   006    Pre-fail  Always
      -       46563275
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   096   092   000    Pre-fail  Always
      -       0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always
      -       39
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  Always
      -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   052   051   030    Pre-fail  Always
      -       1340072750381
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always
      -       770
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   077   097    Pre-fail  Always
  In_the_past 0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always
      -       36
187 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always
      -       0
189 Unknown_Attribute       0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always
      -       0
190 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   063   050   045    Old_age   Always
      -       623181861
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   037   050   000    Old_age   Always
      -       37 (Lifetime Min/Max 0/18)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   078   053   000    Old_age   Always
      -       227697377
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always
      -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age
Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always
      -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age
Offline      -       0
202 TA_Increase_Count       0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age   Always
      -       0


Wonder if this is spurious or a real problem...

I'm running a RAID5 scrub in linux overnight - that ought to upset it if
anythign will.

Cheers

Tim

Tim Southerwood wrote:
> Tim Southerwood wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
>> 7 Seek_Error_Rate   0x000f 052 051 030 Pre-fail Always - 335777683494
>> 9 Power_On_Hours           0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 768
>> 10 Spin_Retry_Count   0x0013 077 077 097 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 0
> 
> I'm going to add something here...
> 
> Both seagates are increasing their seek error rates steadily. Yet both
> seem to be operating OK - no whines from linux in dmesg.
> 
> Also, more interestingly, the seek error rate above equates to nearly
> half a million seek errors PER SECOND that the drive's been powered up.
> 
> This seems unlikely...
> 
> This particular drive does fail a short online test though.
> 
> I am in a position to run Seagate Tools on it *after* my backups to
> another server are finished(!).
> 
> I'll report what that says...
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tim
> 
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