Hi,
I noticed this in my log and wondered what others may think.
Oct 21 20:26:32 smoker smartd[5381]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure
Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 252 to 251
Oct 21 22:26:32 smoker smartd[5381]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure
Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Perfor
Quoting Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I noticed this in my log and wondered what others may think.
Oct 21 20:26:32 smoker smartd[5381]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure
Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 252 to 251
I had a harddrive on a server exhibit this behavior for about a year
On Montag, 19. November 2007, Dale wrote:
AFAIK Pre-fail is not a problem. If the harddisk is close to failing you'll
get something this in your logs:
Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP
DATA NOW!_
Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, 785 Currently
Billy Holmes wrote:
> Quoting Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> I noticed this in my log and wondered what others may think.
>> Oct 21 20:26:32 smoker smartd[5381]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure
>> Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 252 to 251
>
> I had a harddrive on a server exhibi
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Montag, 19. November 2007, Dale wrote:
>
> AFAIK Pre-fail is not a problem. If the harddisk is close to failing you'll
> get something this in your logs:
>
> Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP
> DATA NOW!_
> Nov 19 15:25:0
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:46:52 -0600
Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was looking around on Newegg for a new hard drive. I found a 250GB
> that should work.
You might consider getting a Seagate ES. Enterprise level seagate
drives, although they cost maybe $30 USD more, are spec.'d to spin
con
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:48:36 -0600, Dale wrote:
> I found a drive to replace this one. I'll get it installed in a month
> or so. I'll put useless stuff on this old one.
Like Vista? ;-)
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:48:36 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>
>> I found a drive to replace this one. I'll get it installed in a month
>> or so. I'll put useless stuff on this old one.
>>
>
> Like Vista? ;-)
>
>
>
NO ! There is no windoze allowed in this house. I ha
Dale ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed this in my log and wondered what others may think.
Thanks for your post! Thanks to you I just noticed that I never added
smartd to my default profile... so I did yesterday.
I found your exact same symptoms, on a SATA hard disk. I frankly have
troubles in unde
b.n. wrote:
> Dale ha scritto:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed this in my log and wondered what others may think.
>>
>
> Thanks for your post! Thanks to you I just noticed that I never added
> smartd to my default profile... so I did yesterday.
>
> I found your exact same symptoms, on a SATA hard
Dan Farrell wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:46:52 -0600
> Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> I was looking around on Newegg for a new hard drive. I found a 250GB
>> that should work.
>>
>
> You might consider getting a Seagate ES. Enterprise level seagate
> drives, although they cost
Dan Farrell wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:46:52 -0600
> Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> I was looking around on Newegg for a new hard drive. I found a 250GB
>> that should work.
>>
>
> You might consider getting a Seagate ES. Enterprise level seagate
> drives, although they cost
On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 03:51 -0600, Dale wrote:
> b.n. wrote:
> > Dale ha scritto:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I noticed this in my log and wondered what others may think.
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for your post! Thanks to you I just noticed that I never added
> > smartd to my default profile...
Florian Philipp wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 03:51 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>> b.n. wrote:
>>
>>> Dale ha scritto:
>>>
>>>
Hi,
I noticed this in my log and wondered what others may think.
>>> Thanks for your post! Thanks to you I just noticed
Quoting "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I found your exact same symptoms, on a SATA hard disk. I frankly have
troubles in understanding the smartctl outputs (googled of course, but
while I think the seek time metric is mostly informational and not
really indicative of harddrive failure, my exper
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:12:17 -0600
Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan Farrell wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:46:52 -0600
> > Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I was looking around on Newegg for a new hard drive. I found a
> >> 250GB that should work.
> >>
> >
> > You mig
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:12:17 -0600
Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan Farrell wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:46:52 -0600
> > Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I was looking around on Newegg for a new hard drive. I found a
> >> 250GB that should work.
> >>
> >
> > You mig
Billy Holmes ha scritto:
> Quoting "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> I found your exact same symptoms, on a SATA hard disk. I frankly have
>> troubles in understanding the smartctl outputs (googled of course, but
>
> while I think the seek time metric is mostly informational and not
> really indic
Dan Farrell wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:12:17 -0600
> Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> Ooops, I have IDE and the drive I just sent a email about is a SATA.
>> It won't work anyway. Do they have IDE drives like this?
>>
>
> Yeah, I'm sure they do. You could also buy a controller
On Tuesday 20 November 2007, Dan Farrell wrote:
> So my
> opinion is that samsung and seagate seem to deliver (so far...),
> maxtor/wd/others, it's a toss-up, and IBM==bad.
Harddisks are build by the thousands, and I know of no industrial product that
never has a unit go bad.
I once had three F
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:09:38 -0600
Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan Farrell wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:12:17 -0600
> > Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Ooops, I have IDE and the drive I just sent a email about is a
> >> SATA. It won't work anyway. Do they have IDE drive
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:25:06 +0100
"b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Billy Holmes ha scritto:
> > Quoting "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >> I found your exact same symptoms, on a SATA hard disk. I frankly
> >> have troubles in understanding the smartctl outputs (googled of
> >> course, but
>
Dan Farrell wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:09:38 -0600
> Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> Dan Farrell wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:12:17 -0600
>>> Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>> Hmmm, the last time I looked for a SATA controller it was expensive.
>> I guess
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:28:16 +0100
Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well, the best thing to do is to post any error messages you have
> > here. I googled mine too but still was not sure what to make of the
> > info I was getting. It sounded bad so I posted them here. There
> > are
Billy Holmes ha scritto:
> Quoting "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> I found your exact same symptoms, on a SATA hard disk. I frankly have
>> troubles in understanding the smartctl outputs (googled of course, but
>
> while I think the seek time metric is mostly informational and not
> really indic
Ok,I did a long test and this is the result.
.
voynich cyclopia # smartctl /dev/sda -l selftest
smartctl version 5.37 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revis
b.n. wrote:
> Ok,I did a long test and this is the result.
> .
> voynich cyclopia # smartctl /dev/sda -l selftest
> smartctl version 5.37 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
> SMART Se
Dan Farrell ha scritto:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:25:06 +0100
> "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> it is; however if the partition is live the data could be messed up if
> you read half of an overwritten file or something. in other words, it
> works really well on partitions that aren't live, and
Dale ha scritto:
> b.n. wrote:
>> Ok,I did a long test and this is the result.
>> .
>> voynich cyclopia # smartctl /dev/sda -l selftest
>> smartctl version 5.37 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
>> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> === START OF READ SMART D
Dale wrote:
> Dan Farrell wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:09:38 -0600
>> Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Dan Farrell wrote:
>>>
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:12:17 -0600
Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Hmmm, the last time I looked for a SATA controller it
> > But I was thinking: if my old drive is 200 Gb and my new drive is 320
> > Gb, what happens to the partition table? That is, the old partition
> > table will refer to a 200 Gb disk, on a 320 Gb disk. What happens to the
> > 120 Gb left? Are they recognized as an empty partition? Are they left
>
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:56:38 +0100
"b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan Farrell ha scritto:
> > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:25:06 +0100
> > "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > it is; however if the partition is live the data could be messed up
> > if you read half of an overwritten file or somethi
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:14:57 +0100
"brullo nulla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > But I was thinking: if my old drive is 200 Gb and my new drive is
> > > 320 Gb, what happens to the partition table? That is, the old
> > > partition table will refer to a 200 Gb disk, on a 320 Gb disk.
> > > What h
On Thursday 22 November 2007, brullo nulla wrote:
> > > But I was thinking: if my old drive is 200 Gb and my new drive is 320
> > > Gb, what happens to the partition table? That is, the old partition
> > > table will refer to a 200 Gb disk, on a 320 Gb disk. What happens to
> > > the 120 Gb left? A
Mick ha scritto:
> It's your call of course, but why don't you just boot from a LiveCD, mount
> the
> lot and tar the contents of the suspect disk to the new disk/partitions? The
> size of the new disk and partitions can be anything you like, as long as they
> are not smaller than the amount o
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:23:24 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote:
> you could do that, but dd should be significantly faster, because it
> reads directly from the platters without going through the filesystem.
On the other hand, it copies every byte of the disk, whether in use or
not. Unless you have a ve
On Thursday 22 November 2007, b.n. wrote:
> Mick ha scritto:
> > It's your call of course, but why don't you just boot from a LiveCD,
> > mount the lot and tar the contents of the suspect disk to the new
> > disk/partitions? The size of the new disk and partitions can be anything
> > you like, as
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