I dumpster dived an older low end Dell (actually, found it in a field in a fresh dump pile). Case looked good, only flaws appeared to be missing cdrom bezel and the heat sink clamp was off (but not broken).
After cleaning cpu/heat sink and fresh thermal paste, I found out why it was dumped - the internal hard drive was bad, and the optical drive is going bad.
I had an old 80 GB Seagate and the optical drive was good enough to boot the boot.iso and do a network install, so I put CentOS 5.4 on it.
It is working extremely well as a small headless server, but my Seagate drive has given some SMART errors. This is a drive that has been out of service for several years, I had 60GB worth of flac files on it, and had no trouble getting them off before formatting (and all matched their md5sum).
It appears all the errors happen at boot - IE
Error 10 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1248 hours (52 days + 0 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 84 51 00 65 69 db e1 Error: ICRC, ABRT at LBA = 0x01db6965 = 31156581
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- c8 00 10 65 69 db e1 00 00:37:33.571 READ DMA c8 00 08 7d 4b db e1 00 00:37:33.515 READ DMA c8 00 30 4d 4b db e1 00 00:37:33.458 READ DMA c8 00 40 65 48 db e1 00 00:37:33.456 READ DMA c8 00 28 3d 48 db e1 00 00:37:33.419 READ DMA
etc. - and no errors since boot.
Is that drive about to go south, or are the errors just symptoms of it being older? Are there steps I should take?
drive info:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Barracuda ATA IV family Device Model: ST380021A Serial Number: 3HV09PHE Firmware Version: 3.05 User Capacity: 80,026,361,856 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 5 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Fri Nov 6 10:36:25 2009 PST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
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Thanks for any suggestions.