Thanks for the info... Yeah the only errors I see in /var/log/messages are: smartd[2019]: Device: /dev/hda, 38 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors smartd[2019]: Device: /dev/hda, 34 Offline uncorrectable sectors So obviously there is an issue with some sectors on the hard drive.. just don't know how much I should worry about it at this time... James -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Farrow Sent: January 20, 2006 2:53 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: Hard Drive Errors Sometimes the smart monitoring considers things as errors that really aren't Here is an example from one of my servers: ===================================================== 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. ======================================================= P. Benjamin Smith wrote: >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 >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos