Re: OT: Hard drive warning at boot time

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On 2013/06/21 09:24, Paul Smith wrote:
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Steven Stern
<subscribed-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Today, I am getting this message at boot time:

"Notice - HD self monitoring system has reported that a parameter has
exceeded its normal operating range.  Dell recommends that you back up
your data regularly.  A parameter out of range may or may not indicate
a potential Hard.    Press F1 to continue , F2 to enter setup"

Is there any reason to be worried about?

My computer is about 3 years old.

For each drive on your system, try

    sudo smartctl -H /dev/sdx

where x=a,b,c,.... etc

If any indicate poor health, then use "--all" in place of -H

However, yeah, it's probably time to get a really good backup and price
a replacement drive.


Thanks, Steve. I am getting the following:

# smartctl -H /dev/sda
smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.9.6-200.fc18.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.
Failed Attributes:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   013   013   036    Pre-fail
Always   FAILING_NOW 3587

Paul, when disks start throwing that error it's typically "months"
or less before it does something unfriendly like failing to spin up.
Put a replacement drive high on your list of things to do. Done soon
enough a "dd" disk copy may salvage your current installation with
minimum headache. Wait very long and you may have grown problems in
critical files.

{^_^}

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