[CentOS] Hard Drive Errors

Peter Farrow peter at farrows.org
Fri Jan 20 22:21:12 UTC 2006


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:
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>smartd[2019]: Device: /dev/hda, 38 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
>smartd[2019]: Device: /dev/hda, 34 Offline uncorrectable sectors
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>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
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>-----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:
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>This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on:
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>   host name: xxxxxxx.farrows.org
>  DNS domain: [Unknown]
>  NIS domain: (none)
>
>The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
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>Device: /dev/hda, Failed SMART usage Attribute: 9 Power_On_Hours.
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>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.
>
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>
>P.
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>Benjamin Smith wrote:
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>>Take a look at /var/log/messages to get more info about the errors. 
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>>On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:16, James Gagnon wrote:
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>>>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
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>webserver,
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>>>DNS server, MySQL, and recently I installed webmin.
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>>>The other night I took a peak through webmin to see what kind of things
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>you
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>>>could do with it and came across this Smart Drive option.  Upon further
>>>investigation this option appears to show information about my hard drive
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>as
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>>>the Maxtor drives I have in my server have smart drive capability.  They
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>are
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>>>just a standard IDE drive nothing fancy.
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>>>When looking at this report I noticed a field called Errors and my Drive
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>had
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>>>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.
>>>
>>>
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>>>Location
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>>>IDE device A
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>>>Drive size
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>>>29 GB
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>>>
>>>Make and model
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>>>Maxtor 6E030L0
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>>>Supports SMART?
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>>>Yes
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>>>
>>>SMART enabled?
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>>>Yes
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>>>
>>>Errors logged
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>>>300 errors detected
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>>>Passed drive check?
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>>>Yes
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>>>
>>>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?
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>>>
>>>
>>>Any info would be great. Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>- James
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