On 2013/06/21 09:24, Paul Smith wrote:
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Steven Stern
<subscribed-li...@sterndata.com> wrote:
Today, I am getting this message at boot time:
"Notice - HD self monitoring system has reported that a parameter has
exceeded its normal operating range. Dell recommends that you back up
your data regularly. A parameter out of range may or may not indicate
a potential Hard. Press F1 to continue , F2 to enter setup"
Is there any reason to be worried about?
My computer is about 3 years old.
For each drive on your system, try
sudo smartctl -H /dev/sdx
where x=a,b,c,.... etc
If any indicate poor health, then use "--all" in place of -H
However, yeah, it's probably time to get a really good backup and price
a replacement drive.
Thanks, Steve. I am getting the following:
# smartctl -H /dev/sda
smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.9.6-200.fc18.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.
Failed Attributes:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 013 013 036 Pre-fail
Always FAILING_NOW 3587
Paul, when disks start throwing that error it's typically "months"
or less before it does something unfriendly like failing to spin up.
Put a replacement drive high on your list of things to do. Done soon
enough a "dd" disk copy may salvage your current installation with
minimum headache. Wait very long and you may have grown problems in
critical files.
{^_^}
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