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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