HD Problem

[Joel Oliver]

lists at ptfd.org wrote:
> My Laptop (Dell Latitude D820) running Kubuntu Intrepid has been working fine, 
> then I replaced the HD to get some more breathing room. Seemed to be working 
> well for some time but now suddenly it just stalls out, locking up 
> momentarily, for up to a couple of minuted. 
> In trying to determine what was going on I found it was pdflush and kjournald 
> that would be running excessively.
> I began googleing around and found that my raw writes and seek error rates 
> seem very high, everything else seems fine, see below. 
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
> *******************************************************************************************
> 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   115   100   006    Pre-fail  Always       
> -       96973968
>   3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   097   097   000    Pre-fail  Always       
> -       0
>   4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always       
> -       78
>   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  Always       
> -       0
>   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   061   054   030    Pre-fail  Always       
> -       30077214583
>   9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       
> -       211
>  10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   097    Pre-fail  Always       
> -       1
>  12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   037   020    Old_age   Always       
> -       78
> 184 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   099    Old_age   Always       
> -       0
> 187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       
> -       0
> 188 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   098   000    Old_age   Always       
> -       125
> 189 High_Fly_Writes         0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       
> -       0
> 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   062   035   045    Old_age   Always   
> In_the_past 38 (0 10 45 24)
> 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       
> -       0
> 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       
> -       6
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   098   098   000    Old_age   Always       
> -       4600
> 194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   038   065   000    Old_age   Always       
> -       38 (0 18 0 0)
> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   052   046   000    Old_age   Always       
> -       96973968
> 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
> 254 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       
> -       0
> *********************************************************************************************
>   
Those are some of the biggest numbers on raw_error, seek_error and 
hardware_ecc_recovered I've ever seen!  I've seen drives with a slightly 
tens of thousands of ecc_recovered that still work well, but your drive 
only has been turned on for 211 hrs, shut off or rebooted 78 times and 
forced off (holding the power button I assume, 6 times.  That's a bad 
new drive suffering from the "infant mortality syndrome" I suppose.  
Hopefully this smart data will help you get a refund/replacement.

Joel.