Re: Hard Drive Issues - smartmontools
Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 12:21:45 schrieb Jape Person:
> Hello, folks!
>
> Please help me save my old Sony VAIO desktop system.
>
> I have two very old Sony VAIO systems, one desktop and one
> notebook. They have PATA drives. I run Debian testing (updated
> every day) on them. They've run testing (as a "rolling" release
> using "testing" instead of the codename in sources.list) for years.
>
> A few weeks ago when I upgraded smartmontools to 6.3+svn3990-1 I
> started seeing warnings of uncorrectable read errors from the
> e-mail notifier for both systems. The ensuing upgrades to
> versions 6.3+svn4002-1 and 6.3+svn4002-2 didn't improve matters.
>
> I edited smartd.conf to notify only in case of an increase in
> the error count for both systems. The notebook has been quiet
> since then, but the desktop continued to warn me every day.
>
> I purchased a replacement drive (Maxtor DiamondMax 16, model
> 4R120L0). I installed testing on it, ran the short and long
> tests from gsmartcontrol, and saw that both tests ended
> prematurely with read errors. I didn't examine the logs from
> these tests, but just sent the drive back to the vendor.
>
> I purchased another drive of the same model from a different
> vendor. I got the same results from the the short and long tests.
>
> This time I recorded the results of the short and long tests and
> am attaching them here.
How about cabling and controller?
That said, its a bit unusual at least that errors appear on two systems at
about the same time.
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