[Wylug-help] Disk health monitoring
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at googlemail.com
Thu May 26 13:11:22 UTC 2011
On Thursday 26 May 2011 12:36:39 John Hodrien wrote:
> take (44 minutes in this case).
>
> Wait that amount of time, then do:
>
> smartctl -a /dev/sda
>
> This'll then return something like this (snipped):
>
> SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
> Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours)
> LBA_of_first_error
> # 1 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 80% 15763
> - # 2 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 80% 15763
> - # 3 Short offline Completed without error 00%
> 0 -
>
> If these tests fail, buy a new disk.
>
It says the general health passed, but it did find 4 errors. I could use some
help in understanding what it is telling me, though. Could you look through
it, please (attached) and comment? Thanks
Anne
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# smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Scorpio EIDE family
Device Model: WDC WD600UE-22KVT0
Serial Number: WD-WXE706485695
Firmware Version: 01.03K01
User Capacity: 60,011,642,880 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 7
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Thu May 26 14:46:50 2011 BST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (3180) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 44) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 6) minutes.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 4
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 160 157 021 Pre-fail Always - 1000
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1250
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 188 188 140 Pre-fail Always - 95
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 090 090 000 Old_age Always - 7903
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 100 051 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1236
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 199 199 000 Old_age Always - 1230
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 067 067 000 Old_age Always - 400095
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 096 091 000 Old_age Always - 47
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 194 194 000 Old_age Always - 6
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 2
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0009 200 200 051 Pre-fail Offline - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
ATA Error Count: 4
CR = Command Register [HEX]
FR = Features Register [HEX]
SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
ER = Error register [HEX]
ST = Status register [HEX]
Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.
Error 4 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 5383 hours (224 days + 7 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
04 41 08 37 4c 01 e3 Error: ABRT 8 sectors at LBA = 0x03014c37 = 50416695
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
c8 00 08 37 4c 01 03 08 3d+23:27:27.479 READ DMA
27 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 3d+23:27:27.473 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
ec 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 3d+23:27:27.470 IDENTIFY DEVICE
ef 03 45 00 00 00 00 0a 3d+23:27:27.470 SET FEATURES [Set transfer mode]
27 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 3d+23:27:27.470 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
Error 3 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 5383 hours (224 days + 7 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
04 41 08 37 4c 01 e3 Error: ABRT 8 sectors at LBA = 0x03014c37 = 50416695
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
c8 00 08 37 4c 01 03 08 3d+23:27:24.633 READ DMA
27 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 3d+23:27:24.627 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
ec 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 3d+23:27:24.625 IDENTIFY DEVICE
ef 03 45 00 00 00 00 0a 3d+23:27:24.624 SET FEATURES [Set transfer mode]
27 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 3d+23:27:24.624 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
Error 2 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 5383 hours (224 days + 7 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
04 41 08 37 4c 01 e3 Error: ABRT 8 sectors at LBA = 0x03014c37 = 50416695
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
c8 00 08 37 4c 01 03 08 3d+23:27:21.788 READ DMA
27 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 3d+23:27:21.781 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
ec 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 3d+23:27:21.779 IDENTIFY DEVICE
ef 03 45 00 00 00 00 0a 3d+23:27:21.779 SET FEATURES [Set transfer mode]
27 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 3d+23:27:21.778 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
Error 1 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 5383 hours (224 days + 7 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
04 41 08 37 4c 01 e3 Error: ABRT 8 sectors at LBA = 0x03014c37 = 50416695
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
c8 00 08 37 4c 01 03 08 3d+23:27:18.924 READ DMA
c8 00 18 97 72 bc 03 08 3d+23:27:18.914 READ DMA
c8 00 08 d7 72 bc 03 08 3d+23:27:18.914 READ DMA
c8 00 08 f7 72 bc 03 08 3d+23:27:18.909 READ DMA
c8 00 48 e7 73 bc 03 08 3d+23:27:18.905 READ DMA
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 7903 -
# 2 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 7901 -
# 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7899 -
# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7899 -
# 5 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 7887 -
# 6 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 1839 -
# 7 Short offline Completed without error 00% 1838 -
# 8 Short offline Completed without error 00% 1838 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
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