SMART Disk Dying

[Kurt Wall]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 11:39:49AM -0700, Myles Green took 45 lines to write:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 21:27:51 -0500
> Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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:


> I just recently saw the same error messages here. In my case, the
> drives continued to function for a few more weeks but failed this week,
> just two days apart. FYI, these were Maxtor fluid bearing units just
> old enough to be outside of the warranty period :-(

The one that died here was a Maxtor. I got more mileage out of it than
I anticipated, having purchased it new (allegedly) on eBay.

> HTH,

It does. The SMART reporting was born out insofar as I started getting
read/write errors and DMA timeouts. I'll pull the dying drive tonight
and replace it with the new one.

Thanks,

Kurt
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