Re: Hard disk dying?

[Sam <transiency@transiency.org>]

Justin, 
Should I unmount the drive before doing the tests? 

Thanks,
Sam

On 8/6/07, Justin Piszcz < jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> wrote:

On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Sam wrote:

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> Justin, here is the output from smartctl -a /dev/hda
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> smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Your disk looks OK to me, I have seen Device Status Error in the past as
well but never suffered any ill effects.

Some other things to try:

smartctl -t short /dev/hda # wait 5min
smartclt -l selftest /dev/hda

smartctl -t long /dev/hda  # wait 6-120 min
smartclt -l selftest /dev/hda

and/then show smartctl -a output again
if all the tests pass, your disk should be OK