On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:14 PM, nate <centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Download the manufacturer's tools and run a diagnostics on it,
> it will tell you the truth about what's going on.
>
> I wouldn't trust any generic OS tools over the manufacturer's tools,
> there was a discussion on this topic on this list I think not too
> long ago. The biggest gotcha with the vendor tools though is
> they are usually limited in the types of disk controllers they
> support.
>
I was going to laugh this off 'cuz how many manufacturers support
Linux, but I was pleasantly surprised, twice, when I found that a)
Seagate does and b) the seatools for Linux produced no errors on the
long test.
It also told me lots of interesting information that I don't recall at
the moment, not the least of which was that the drive does not support
DST (the on-board diagnostics test), which I thought was odd.
Based on some of the other responses, I think I'll run smartctl to see
what it says, but that still doesn't really answer the question about
the number (4294967295 which happens to be FFFFFFFF). There are only
a little over 5 billion sectors on the disk in total - how could 4.3
billion of them be bad?
I'm thinking it's more likely a 32-bit v. 64-bit issue, but I haven't
finished looking at that yet.
One other thing that I find interesting: the drives that are showing
smart errors are /dev/hdb and /dev/sda. In order from oldest to
newest, my drives are:
/dev/hdb - Maxtor 120GB PATA
/dev/hda - Maxtor 160GB PATA
/dev/sda - Seagate 300GB SATA
/dev/sdb - WD 320GB SATA
The older of each of the PATA and SATA drives are the ones showing the
errors....
Thanks.
mhr
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