disks... (is it broken or is it something else?)
On 14 Aug I reported (update at end!)
A couple of weeks ago, 'smart' sent me:
The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
Device: /dev/hdb, not capable of SMART self-check
and in /var/log/messages for that time I see (exc iptables info):
Jul 30 05:13:10 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 30 05:14:10 ratty kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
Jul 30 05:14:10 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 30 05:15:10 ratty kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
Jul 30 05:15:10 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 30 05:15:10 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
Jul 30 05:15:10 ratty kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
Jul 30 05:15:17 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
{etc}
I also note that on 23 & on 25 Jul (ie a week earlier) the machine had
frozen over night so I had to do a hard reboot (pull the kettle lead
out)
I didn't reboot on 30 Jul but did earlier tonight and the machine failed
to boot - /dev/hdb not being 'found' by the BIOS (I think). I rebooted
went into BIOS & all disks were present so continued to reboot but just
now got another SMART warning (same as above "Device: /dev/hdb, not
capable of SMART self-check") and if I try and cd/ls a partition on the
device it just hangs.
michael@ratty:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/hdb
smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce
Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: [No Information Found]
Serial Number: [No Information Found]
Firmware Version: [No Information Found]
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 1
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Thu Aug 14 19:49:28 2008 BST
SMART is only available in ATA Version 3 Revision 3 or greater.
We will try to proceed in spite of this.
SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show
if SMART supported.
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more
'-T permissive' options.
and I'm not sure what that means.
I'll welcome advice on whether it's the HDD about to die or whether the
interrupt/timed out messages indicate something else?
This is on box with
michael@ratty:~$ uname -a
Linux ratty.xxxxx.ac.uk 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Tue Jun 17 21:31:27 UTC 2008
i686 GNU/Linux
UPDATE: I've, as suggested, put this disk into another machine and so
far (about 5 hrs) 'smart' hasn't reported any errors and I have
successfully done 'ls -R' and 'find . -type f' on the (only) partition a
few times...
So my question is whether the hard drive is actually okay? And if so why
was I getting numerous errors before??
All help at solving this most welcome!
Michael
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