Hard Drive Errors

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Take a look at /var/log/messages to get more info about the errors. 

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:16, James Gagnon wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> First post to this list. have to say from what I have read in the passed
> couple months. damn you people are knowledgeable in this stuff!
> 
>  
> 
> Anyways, I just setup a centos box for my personal little server at home.
> Basically just a small personal, non-corporate server that runs a webserver,
> DNS server, MySQL, and recently I installed webmin.
> 
>  
> 
> The other night I took a peak through webmin to see what kind of things you
> could do with it and came across this Smart Drive option.  Upon further
> investigation this option appears to show information about my hard drive as
> the Maxtor drives I have in my server have smart drive capability.  They are
> just a standard IDE drive nothing fancy.
> 
>  
> 
> When looking at this report I noticed a field called Errors and my Drive had
> 200 errors.  What does this mean?  Errors are usually not a good thing. is
> this a cause for concern?  Is there any drive utility tools out there that
> fix these errors?  Server seems to run fine. so I don't know what to think
> about these errors.  That's on my main drive. My other backup drive has
> about 10,000 errors on it and that causes me some concern heh.
> 
>  
> 
> 
> Location
> 
> IDE device A
> 
> 
> Drive size
> 
> 29 GB
> 
> 
> Make and model
> 
> Maxtor 6E030L0
> 
> 
> Supports SMART?
> 
> Yes
> 
> 
> SMART enabled?
> 
> Yes
> 
> 
> Errors logged
> 
> 300 errors detected
> 
> 
> Passed drive check?
> 
> Yes
> 
>  
> 
> Should I be concerned about these errors even though it does say it passed
> the drive check?  If so, anyone know how I can fix them?  Or is this just
> normal hard drive life?
> 
>  
> 
> Any info would be great. Thanks!
> 
>  
> 
> - James
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>  
> 
> 

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