From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 17 16:33:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5617416A4CF for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:33:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B888043D41 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:33:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j2HGX4j4070573; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:33:04 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:33:04 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: David Kelly Message-ID: <20050317163304.GA87804@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050317155731.GA47387@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050317155731.GA47387@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMART and bad block list? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:33:06 -0000 In the last episode (Mar 17), David Kelly said: > On SCSI drives one could look at the bad block lists to see if it was > growing to know if a drive was getting sick. In the wee hours of the > morning one of my Hitachi HDS722516VLSA80's got sick: > > Mar 17 03:04:39 Grumpy kernel: ad4: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=282857146 > Mar 17 03:04:39 Grumpy kernel: ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out > Mar 17 03:04:39 Grumpy kernel: GEOM_VINUM: subdisk vinum0.p0.s0 state change: up -> down > Mar 17 03:04:39 Grumpy kernel: GEOM_VINUM: plex vinum0.p0 state change: up -> down > > "atacontrol info" says SMART is enabled. So what does this do for me? > Has the drive exhausted its supply spare blocks and can no longer > repair itself? Try the smartmontools port. I don't think it can read the bad-block list from ATA disks, but it will give you an errors detected/corrected summary. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com