Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:14:39 -0700 From: Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Please help in diagnosing these smartmon messages Message-ID: <200802042014.40016.af300wsm@gmail.com>
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HI, I just installed smartmontools from ports on my churches system and I think I'm glad I did. However, not being completely familiar with it, I'd like some help with the messages (and errors) that have been discovered thus far (since I installed it on Saturday, yikes!). First was this, and it's repeated in the log /var/log/messages frequently: Feb 4 18:19:44 whitbap smartd[64783]: Device: /dev/ad0, 12 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Even though this entry comes from today, this was e-mailed to me within hours of enabling smartd on Saturday. I understand what sectors are and I know what unreadable is. I was wondering what "pending" meant. Then, yesterday I was e-mailed this one: Feb 3 02:49:44 whitbap smartd[64783]: Device: /dev/ad0, Self-Test Log error count increased from 0 to 1 Using smartctl I found that option "-l" with the argument "selftest" would give me more information. This is what I found: whitbap# smartctl -l selftest /dev/ad0 smartctl version 5.37 [i386-portbld-freebsd6.2] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 70% 60397 67413 # 2 Short offline Completed: read failure 70% 60373 67413 I know it's probably near impossible to know exactly how much longer this drive has, but how serious are these errors? As I mentioned, the unreadable sectors on the hard drive are repeated many times in the log ( > 100 times). Thanks all, Andy
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