Re: [smartmontools-support] Condition of my hard drive: PASSED but with problems ???

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Hi Peter,

The FAILING_NOW indicates that the disk has done more load cycles (moving 
the disk heads between parking position and activity) than the design 
limit.   Personally I would plan to replace this disk in the near future, 
and make every effort to back up any important data from it.

You should run a self-test with 'smartctl -t long' to see if there are 
unreadable data blocks.

Cheers,
 	Bruce

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Peter Browry wrote:

> Hi there:
>
> Recently I found out about *Smartmontools* and using it I received the
> message shown below.
> As you can see, SMART overall-health self-assessment is PASSED but the
> disk has several problems
> reported in the message shown below.
>
> Reading the online help files, it seems to me that the disk probably has
> some bad blocks; however
> I am not sure how severe are these problems (especially the messages:
> FAILING_NOW).
>
> What is your opinion? Can I still use this hard drive with periodic
> backup or I need to buy a new one?
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> /PB
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> smartctl version 5.33 [i586-mandriva-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4
> Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Device Model:     HITACHI_DK23CA-30
> Serial Number:    10NRPL
> Firmware Version: 00H0A0G1
> User Capacity:    30,005,821,440 bytes
> Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
> ATA Version is:   5
> ATA Standard is:  ATA/ATAPI-5 T13 1321D revision 3
> Local Time is:    Mon Sep 24 12:31:17 2007 EDT
> SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
> SMART support is: Enabled
>
> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
> SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
> See vendor-specific Attribute list for marginal Attributes.
>
> General SMART Values:
> Offline data collection status:  (0x82) Offline data collection activity
>                                        was completed without error.
>                                        Auto Offline Data Collection:
> Enabled.
> Self-test execution status:      (   0) The previous self-test routine
> completed
>                                        without error or no self-test
> has ever
>                                        been run.
> Total time to complete Offline
> data collection:                 (1820) seconds.
> Offline data collection
> capabilities:                    (0x1b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
>                                        Auto Offline data collection
> on/off support.
>                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new
>                                        command.
>                                        Offline surface scan supported.
>                                        Self-test supported.
>                                        No Conveyance Self-test supported.
>                                        No Selective Self-test supported.
> SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
>                                        power-saving mode.
>                                        Supports SMART auto save timer.
> Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
>                                        No General Purpose Logging support.
> Short self-test routine
> recommended polling time:        (   2) minutes.
> Extended self-test routine
> recommended polling time:        (  31) minutes.
>
>
> SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
> Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
> UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000d   100   100   050    Pre-fail
> Offline      -       12884901896
>  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0005   100   054   050    Pre-fail
> Offline      -       4030
>  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   100   100   050    Pre-fail
> Always       -       0
>  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   099   099   050    Old_age
> Always       -       1186
>  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   095   095   010    Pre-fail
> Always       -       134
>  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   100   100   050    Pre-fail
> Always       -       309
>  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0005   095   095   050    Pre-fail
> Offline      -       2020
>  9 Power_On_Minutes        0x0032   003   003   060    Old_age
> Always   FAILING_NOW 48806h+10m
> 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   050    Pre-fail
> Always       -       0
> 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age
> Always       -       467
> 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x000a   100   100   050    Old_age
> Always       -       0
> 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age
> Always       -       85
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   001   001   050    Old_age
> Always   FAILING_NOW 6394522/6394436
> 194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   052   028   000    Old_age
> Always       -       64 (Lifetime Min/Max 15/76)
> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   100   045   050    Old_age
> Always   In_the_past 498
> 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   087   087   001    Old_age
> Always       -       134
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   100   099   001    Old_age
> Always       -       0
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   001    Old_age
> Offline      -       0
> 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age
> Always       -       0
> 223 Load_Retry_Count        0x0012   100   100   050    Old_age
> Always       -       34
> 230 Head_Amplitude          0x0032   076   076   060    Old_age
> Always       -       722752
> 250 Read_Error_Retry_Rate   0x000a   100   001   050    Old_age
> Always   In_the_past 707
>
> SMART Error Log Version: 1
> ATA Error Count: 332 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)
>        CR = Command Register [HEX]
>        FR = Features Register [HEX]
>        SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
>        SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
>        CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
>        CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
>        DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
>        DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
>        ER = Error register [HEX]
>        ST = Status register [HEX]
> Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
> DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
> SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.
>
> Error 332 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 26217 hours (1092 days + 9
> hours)
> Error 331 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 26217 hours (1092 days + 9
> hours)
> Error 330 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 26216 hours (1092 days + 8
> hours)
> Error 329 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 26216 hours (1092 days + 8
> hours)
> Error 328 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 26030 hours (1084 days +
> 14 hours)
>
>
>
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