On Friday, September 28, 2012 08:58:47 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > > > > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 115 082 006 Pre-fail > > > > > > > > Always - 96695847 > > > > > > Ok, your disk is dying. The Raw_Read_Error_Rate should be zero, or very > > > low. > > > > Not necessarily. At least one disk mfr (Seagate?) puts large values in > > these fields. Cause me a few moments' consternation the first time I saw > > it on my own drives.... > > ~ > Indeed! Something "spooky" may be going on. After taking the drive > out in order to back it up, I have run "fdisk -l" with no disk and > sometimes with a pen drive inserted and these bellow are the results I > got. > ~ > Don't you find all of this downright weird?
Not yet. > ~ > I don't believe in ghosts ;-) What do you think I could do to > troubleshoot this further? Have you tried "fdisk -l /dev/sda"? I think you did, to no avail. It might be searching some other drive or type of drive first that is slow to respond. Check the drive's power state: hdparm -C /dev/sda How about: tail -f /var/log/messages # In a separate window time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=1 time fdisk -l /dev/sda to see if the drive is dozing. Or (from hdparm's man page: Disable the automatic power-saving function of certain Seagate drives...): hdparm -Z /dev/sda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209282134.29827.neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu
