Re: [smartmontools-support] Neverending self-tests

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

If the disk is under warranty, get it replaced for not completing the 
SMART self tests.  If not under warranty, buy another one.  It sounds 
sick.

Cheers,
 	Bruce

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Occam wrote:

> This problem occurs only on one of my two Samsung Barracuda 160GB SATA disks.
> When requesting a self-test, progress stops at 70% remaining (short offline)
> or 90% remaining (extended offline), showing
> (249) self-test routine in progress - 90% remaining.
>
> Resetting ( -X) and retrying a short self-test starts out ok, but after 20
> minutes there is still 90% remaining, after two hours 80%.  It should take
> one minute!!
> However, according to smartctl -a there has never been any errors.
>
> BUT, that hard disk has suffered errors at least twice.  A paramter in a
> configuration file (cups) went from 'Basic' to '****c' (where **** stands for
> actual non-ASCII characters); and a font size in another configuration file
> went from 14 to something on the order of 32,700 spontanously.
>
> How can I find out if the hard disk is bad or not?  Trusting smartctl I have
> tried three motherboards but there is no change to the self-test problem.
>
> Or should I just take the loss and buy a new hard disk?
>
>
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