SMART Disk Dying

[Shawn Tayler]

Kurt,

Is this built into the bios on your PC?  If so, what MB?

This seems real interesting to me, having delt with failed HD's this week.

Shawn

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 21:27:51 -0500 Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com>
exclaimed:

> It appears that /dev/hdb is going south. The BIOS SMART monitor kicked
> on this afternoon telling me that the disk was going to go bad within
> 24 hours and to get all my data off of it NOW. So, I've done so. More
> interesting, after booting into single user mode and while copying data
> off the disk, I got some DMA timeouts and other errors, so evidently
> SMART is pretty smart. Meanwhile, smartctl had some interesting things to
> say:
> 
> # smartctl -H /dev/hdb 
> 
> === 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
> 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0009   018   155   051    Pre-fail  Offline
>  FAILING_NOW 4372
> 
> # smartctl -l selftest >> /dev/hdb
> 
> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
> SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
> Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining 
> LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error# 1  Short offline       Completed:
> unknown failure    90%       802         0xfffc0000
> 
> My question is, can I believe this information?
> 
> Kurt
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