From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4036A13877A for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 07:41:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00935E08BE; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 07:41:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from uberouter3.guranga.net (unknown [78.25.223.226]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E65C2E086E for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 07:41:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.151.100] (unknown [192.168.151.100]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by uberouter3.guranga.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3C46682E18 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:41:09 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <53AA7D11.6070909@thegeezer.net> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:41:05 +0100 From: thegeezer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60% References: <53AA050F.4070907@gmail.com> <49620f42-d9c3-43b1-9f01-1250e52eb950@email.android.com> <53AA587F.8090300@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53AA587F.8090300@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 33ef43a0-3ed2-4229-b241-521c05a90015 X-Archives-Hash: 4370f836ecf194107a5a269eaa8b678f On 06/25/2014 06:05 AM, Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On 25 June 2014 01:09:03 CEST, Dale wrote: >>> Howdy, >>> >>> I run this test every once in a while. How bad is this: >>> >>> root@fireball / # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc >>> smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.14.0-gentoo] (local >>> build) >>> Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, >>> www.smartmontools.org >>> >>> === 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 Extended offline Completed: read failure 60% >>> 16365 2905482560 >>> # 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 60% >>> 16352 2905482560 >>> # 3 Extended offline Completed without error 00% >>> 8044 - >>> # 4 Extended offline Completed without error 00% >>> 3121 - >>> this is pretty bad. enough to really go and get a replacement asap, and turn that disk off if you can. the self test stops at the first error it comes to and in this case it is LBA#2905482560 for calculation of where the error is check out the smartcl [1] site which will help you to mark the block bad though the data that was in that block is probably lost forever. i'd also suggest you run # smartctl -a /dev/sdc and paste the results here. the crucial rows are 196/197 the reallocated sector counts and pending sector counts. they show how many blocks have been reallocated, and also how many are pending. this will give you a scaling factor, at the moment you are in trouble, if these figures are very high you are in very high trouble, if they are low you are in low trouble. [1] http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html