Smart attributes are categorized as age and others as pre-failure. Anything that generates an 'error' is a sign of a problem, and may show up under pre-fail. I'd replace the drive if you need the server to be available. If availability is not your goal, just keep decent backups and replace the drive after it dies. --Blake -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [CentOS] SMART errors From: Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Date: Friday, November 06, 2009 12:57:51 PM > 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 > > -=- > > Thanks for any suggestions. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >