Watch the numbers to see if they increase...
P.
James Gagnon wrote:
>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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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