HD Problem
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Mon Jan 19 14:51:49 UTC 2009
On Monday 19 January 2009, Joel Oliver wrote:
>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
Get your data off that drive and RMA it, its toast.
>> 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
Why this isn't going up I have no idea
>> 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 061 054 030 Pre-fail Always
>> - 30077214583
Yikes!
>> 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)
That is fairly warm, but shouldn't be a factor at its age and powerup count.
>> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 052 046 000 Old_age Always
>> - 96973968
Ouch...
>> 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.
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