Hello, On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Dale wrote: >David Haller wrote: >> On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Dale wrote: >> Yeah. Oh, and I had a "clean" smart until a few days ago, luckily I >> alread had a WD Red (WD40EFRX) drive waiting when this attrib jumped >> from 0 to: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 087 087 036 Pre-fail Always >> 17688 Other Seagates (a few 1.5T drives) have also made me trouble, >> the 2T Samsung already relabeled and sold as a Seagate but with >> Samsung in the FW though is still ok. [..] > >I was wondering about how that would be updated since a lot of that >stuff requires windoze.
I had the "fun" with a couple of those 2TB Samsung drives a while ago (Jan 2012?). Samsung had some .iso files available, which you could write to a CD/DVD/USB-Shtik, and then boot from them. For me, the biggest problem was _which_ of the 4 HD204UI and 2 HD203WI I had and have needed the update... I don't remember the SW displaying serial numbers... *gah* Anyway, I've got it sorted out and updated those that needed the update. With Seagate/WD/HGST/Toshiba I've no experience. And I still am grumpy about Samsung selling off their HDD stuff to Seagate. BTW: in german, we have a saying for Seagate drives: "sie geht oder sie geht nicht", basically spoken as "sea gate odr sea gate nicht" meaning "she works or she won't"... But, talk about IBM "deathstars", and WD has also a record, basically, all HDDs are much alike nowadays, and have been for years. There's always a bad batch somewhere ... Seagate: Seagate drives (???), ex-Maxtor drives, ex-Samsung drives WD: bought Hitachi GST (formerly IBM), i.e. WD + ex-IBM/HGST drives Toshiba: new player, no warranty for bulk drives, unknown for the desktop I miss the days when you still had a real choice (WD, Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung, IBM, and smaller/specialized stuff (Excelstor, Toshiba for Laptop drives))... If Seagate would at least label their former Samsung drives in a recognizable manner (say, ST*DS* vs. ST*DM* or keep the Samsung label or whatever), I'd be a happy bunny, but as of now, that failing ST3000DM001 was the last Seagate I've bought for quite some time. Oh, and I've got a second ST3000DM001 used externally, with stuff that can get lost, but it'd be inconvenient. And yes, I'm planning on ordering a replacement ASAP (another WD40EFRX). Just in case. And the steady state of my discs is full anyway ... # dfall -t ext3 -t ext4 -h [..] 14.6T 13.2T 996.4G 90% and that's just because item one: /dev/sda is taken up by a 128G Samsung 830 SSD, and item two: I just swapped in that 4TB WD for the failing Seagate 3TB. (and yes, I use ext{3,4} exclusively on disk), there's another ~10 TiB in the "fileserver" on 11 disks and a few naked drives (and a docking station (Sharkoon QuickDeck)) and an external drive ;) >>> I ordered a drive. It should be here tomorrow. In the meantime, I >>> shutdown and re-seated all the cables, power too. I got the test running >>> again but results is a few hours off yet. It did pass the short test >>> tho. I'm not sure that it means much. >> >> Good. Do not use dd, it WILL fail at the first error. Use gnu ddrescue >> or dd_rescue to grab an image. I used mc to copy via filesystem, eg. >> 'rsync -auxlPRAXSHD /foo/ /bar/' is fine too. Oh, and I hope you >> didn't buy a Seagate again ;) BTW: *GRR* for you buying a ST3000DM001 again >I plan to rsync or cp the data over. Good plan. >The dd part will come into play after I am sure I got everything off >that I can get and am just erasing the drive completely. I plan to dd >the drive then run the tests again just to see what it is doing. >Heck, maybe it will reallocate that area like it should be doing >already, I guess. Reallocation happens on writes ... Look for --write-sector in 'man hdparm'. I've been doing that "smartctl -t .." / hdparm --write-sector ... stuff for a bunch of sectors but got tired of that game. And you having 104 pending sectors? *gah* That'll get tedious. Probably using 'ddrescue /dev/zero /dev/sdX sdX.log' would be easier. That way, after you got whatever data you can rescue from that drive, you can clear the drive too before sending it in for a warranty replacement (if still applicable). >Time will tell. I'll be having fun tomorrow tho. ;-) Do have fun, after you got your data off that drive :) -dnh -- Gibt es ein Buch über das maßvolle Verwenden von Fußnoten? Wenn ja, dann bin ich bereit, Dir ein Exemplar zu schicken. [Thorsten Haude zu David Haller in sl-etikette]