smartctl --all -d scsi /dev/sde
smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
Device: Seagate FreeAgent Go Version: 0142
Serial number: 2GE45ABA
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Sat Jul 9 10:45:54 2011 MST
Device does not support SMART
Error Counter logging not supported
Device does not support Self Test logging
Not much help.
A summary of the SMART data:
ID = 5
Reallocated Sector Count
Count of remapped sectors
Normalized 98
Worst 98
Threshold 36
Value 336 sectors
This is the data for the drive I reformatted.
Paolo
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 09:33:46 -0700,It might help to see the smartctl output.
Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have 2 Seagate FreeAgent Go 1Tb drives. These are portable drives
> that get their power through USB. Both these drives are about 1 year
> old. Every time I login I get a notification that both these drives may
> be going bad. The reason is too many bad sectors. One drive is
> formatted as it originally came, i.e NTFS the other was reformatted as
> Ext4. I have checked both drives using Seagate's tools (in non
> destructive mode) as well as checking the NTFS one in Windows 7. No
> problems where reported. The question is should I really believe what
> SMART is telling me or is it just stupid :-)
>
> There are no disk errors reported or any other issues that might
> indicate the drive is going bad.
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