[clug] S.M.A.R.T message for hd failure

[Ian Matters]

Hi Joshua.

I recently had a burst of these on a Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS server and like  
you thought that it was time to panic.

Having replaced the complete machine with a new one I later went back  
to the one which had been reporting SMART errors only to find that no  
errors were being reported.  Possibly it is a problem of incorrect  
reporting as you suggest.  I haven't had time to delve into it further  
at this stage.

Cheers,
Ian Matters

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On 31/01/2008, at 9:28 PM, Joshua Worth wrote:

> I just started getting a message today that my hard drive was  
> failing...
>
>    Broadcast Message from
>    root at racer
>            (somewhere) at 19:46
>    ...
>
>
>    <b>Your hard disk drive is failing!</b> S.M.A.R.T. message:
>    Device:
>    /dev/sda, 1 Currently unreadable (pending)
>    sectors
>
>
>
>
>    Broadcast Message from
>    root at racer
>            (somewhere) at 19:46
>    ...
>
>
>    <b>Your hard disk drive is failing!</b> S.M.A.R.T. message:
>    Device:
>    /dev/sda, 1 Offline uncorrectable
>    sectors
>
>
>
>
>    Broadcast Message from
>    root at racer
>            (somewhere) at 20:15
>    ...
>
>
>    <b>Your hard disk drive is failing!</b> S.M.A.R.T. message:
>    Device:
>    /dev/sda, ATA error count increased from 95 to
>    125
>
>
>
> It doesn't look good, but I saw on a forum that it might be lying to  
> me
> but I cant be sure. This message was appearing when I had an extra 80
> gigabyte drive in my computer, but after taking that out and doing  
> some
> tests, it turned out to be fine. I am using OpenSuSE 10.3 X86_64
> Is there a way I could fix this without destroying any data?
>
> Here is the forum I looked at:
> http://suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=42621
>
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