[CentOS] Hard Drive Errors

[James Gagnon]

Sounds good... The smartd showing 300 errors thing has not moved since I
started checking out smartd 2-3 weeks ago... but will keep an eye on that
too.

As for the numbers in the actual /var/log/messages file ill keep my eye on
those numbers and see what happens they don't seem to add up to the 300 that
smartd seems to indicate... will watch and see what happens... May have to
contact Maxtor...

Thanks Peter!

James


-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
Of Peter Farrow
Sent: January 20, 2006 3:21 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Hard Drive Errors

Watch the numbers to see if they increase...

P.


James Gagnon wrote:

>Thanks for the info...
>Yeah the only errors I see in /var/log/messages are:
>
>smartd[2019]: Device: /dev/hda, 38 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
>smartd[2019]: Device: /dev/hda, 34 Offline uncorrectable sectors
>
>So obviously there is an issue with some sectors on the hard drive.. just
>don't know how much I should worry about it at this time...
>
>James
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf
>Of Peter Farrow
>Sent: January 20, 2006 2:53 PM
>To: CentOS mailing list
>Subject: Re: [CentOS] Hard Drive Errors
>
>Sometimes the smart monitoring considers things as errors that really
aren't
>
>Here is an example from one of my servers:
>=====================================================
>
>This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on:
>
>   host name: xxxxxxx.farrows.org
>  DNS domain: [Unknown]
>  NIS domain: (none)
>
>The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
>
>Device: /dev/hda, Failed SMART usage Attribute: 9 Power_On_Hours.
>
>For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages).
>
>You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation.
>The original email about this issue was sent at Tue Dec 13 10:49:47 2005
GMT
>Another email message will be sent in 24 hours if the problem persists.
>
>=======================================================
>
>P.
>
>
>
>Benjamin Smith wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Take a look at /var/log/messages to get more info about the errors. 
>>
>>On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:16, James Gagnon wrote:
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Heya,
>>>
>>>First post to this list. have to say from what I have read in the passed
>>>couple months. damn you people are knowledgeable in this stuff!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Anyways, I just setup a centos box for my personal little server at home.
>>>Basically just a small personal, non-corporate server that runs a
>>>      
>>>
>webserver,
>  
>
>>>DNS server, MySQL, and recently I installed webmin.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>The other night I took a peak through webmin to see what kind of things
>>>      
>>>
>you
>  
>
>>>could do with it and came across this Smart Drive option.  Upon further
>>>investigation this option appears to show information about my hard drive
>>>      
>>>
>as
>  
>
>>>the Maxtor drives I have in my server have smart drive capability.  They
>>>      
>>>
>are
>  
>
>>>just a standard IDE drive nothing fancy.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>When looking at this report I noticed a field called Errors and my Drive
>>>      
>>>
>had
>  
>
>>>200 errors.  What does this mean?  Errors are usually not a good thing.
is
>>>this a cause for concern?  Is there any drive utility tools out there
that
>>>fix these errors?  Server seems to run fine. so I don't know what to
think
>>>about these errors.  That's on my main drive. My other backup drive has
>>>about 10,000 errors on it and that causes me some concern heh.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Location
>>>
>>>IDE device A
>>>
>>>
>>>Drive size
>>>
>>>29 GB
>>>
>>>
>>>Make and model
>>>
>>>Maxtor 6E030L0
>>>
>>>
>>>Supports SMART?
>>>
>>>Yes
>>>
>>>
>>>SMART enabled?
>>>
>>>Yes
>>>
>>>
>>>Errors logged
>>>
>>>300 errors detected
>>>
>>>
>>>Passed drive check?
>>>
>>>Yes
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Should I be concerned about these errors even though it does say it
passed
>>>the drive check?  If so, anyone know how I can fix them?  Or is this just
>>>normal hard drive life?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Any info would be great. Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>- James
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>> 
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