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,
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> 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!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Location
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> IDE device A
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> Drive size
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> 29 GB
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> Make and model
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> Maxtor 6E030L0
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> Supports SMART?
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> Yes
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> SMART enabled?
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> Yes
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> Errors logged
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> 300 errors detected
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> Passed drive check?
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> Yes
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> 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?
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> Any info would be great. Thanks!
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> - James
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