Rasmus Back wrote: > On 3/29/07, Alfred von Campe <alfred at 110.net> wrote: >> On Mar 29, 2007, at 7:22, Rasmus Back wrote: >> >> > Thanks for the pointer! The smart logs for my drives don't show any >> > errors but I'll start a long selftest just to be sure. Although if it >> > is a failing hard drive then the raid driver should kick it out of the >> > array. Your system was a laptop with just one drive, right? >> >> It was actually a single SATA drive on a desktop system, but yes, it >> was not in a RAID configuration. Are you running the selftest on >> both drives? It would be interesting to see the results of that... > > Well this is interesting: smartctl -H /dev/sda returns "SMART Health > Status: OK". But when I try to start a test with smartctl -t long > /dev/sda I immediately get "Extended Background Self Test Failed". > Apparently my drives don't work with smartctl since smartctl -l error > /dev/sda returns: > > Error Counter logging not supported > > Error Events logging not supported > > I checked the BIOS and SMART reporting is turned on, although from the > description of this option it sounds like this controls whether > failures are reported during the BIOS boot-up. > > Rasmus Rasmus, I don't know what motherboard and kernel you are using, but I found that using the stock Centos 4.4 kernel-utils package (which includes smartctl), smartctl did not work with my Sata II drive. So I downloaded, built, and installed smartmontools-5.37, which did. I am also running kernel 2.20.1 -- not sure if that is a factor. Plus my sata driver module is sata_nv (Nvidia). --peter gross