Sometimes the smart monitoring considers things as errors that really aren't
Here is an example from one of my servers:
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This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on:
host name: xxxxxxx.farrows.org
DNS domain: [Unknown]
NIS domain: (none)
The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
Device: /dev/hda, Failed SMART usage Attribute: 9 Power_On_Hours.
For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages).
You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation.
The original email about this issue was sent at Tue Dec 13 10:49:47 2005 GMT
Another email message will be sent in 24 hours if the problem persists.
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Benjamin Smith wrote:
>Take a look at /var/log/messages to get more info about the errors.
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>On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:16, James Gagnon wrote:
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>>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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