On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:39:30 +0300, James Brown wrote: > I had upgraded the HDD of my laptop "Acer TravelMate3040 (working under > Debian AMD64) to the Seagate ST9500420AS 500 GB. It seems that it works > fine but I have the next result of the smartctl now: > http://paste.org.ru/?hb4nsx > In the beginning of using it I had the next result: > http://paste.org.ru/?ouzru9
You have to take care about the "pre-fail" values: *** 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 116 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 115084648 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 067 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 17202967923 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 *** "Raw_Read_Error_Rate" and "Seek_Error_Rate" are very high. > I have read that the smartctl can get very strandge results for Seagate > HDDs and it may be not so terrible as it seems. Have anyone an opinion > concirning this matter? Yes, I also saw these values were very high on my Segate drives and was also alarmed, but looking into Wkipedia [1] I discovered that Segate drives just make another interpretation of that values, so unless you are getting another smart warning (or you hear some "clack, clack" noise coming from your drive), I would not worry for these. *** 01 01 Read Error Rate Indicates the rate of hardware read errors that occurred when reading data from a disk surface. A non-zero value indicates a problem with the disk surface, read/write heads, or the heads are not centered exactly over the track. Note that Seagate drives often report a raw value that is very high even on new drives, and does not thereby indicate a failure. 07 Seek Error Rate Rate of seek errors of the magnetic heads. If there is a partial failure in the mechanical positioning system, then seek errors will arise. Such a failure may be due to numerous factors, such as damage to a servo, or thermal widening of the hard disk. More seek errors indicates a worsening condition of a disk’s surface or the mechanical subsystem, or both. Note that Seagate drives often report a raw value that is very high, even on new drives, and this does not normally indicate a failure. *** > And the next question, how can I get the serial > number of my Seagate HDD without drawning it out from my notebook? I > want to send request to the Seagate technical support but tor it I must > register on their site with that number and their site don't want it the > serial number that I can get with exicuting commands "smartctl" or > "hdparm". Any information about the drive unit (model, serial number and firmware version) should be displayed with "smartctl -a /dev/sda". [1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.> Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org