On Saturday 21 January 2006 13:45, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > On 1/21/06, Ed Tomlinson <edt@xxxxxx> wrote: > > grover:/var/log# smartctl -i -d ata /dev/sda > [snip] > > grover:/var/log# smartctl -H -d ata /dev/sda > > smartctl version 5.34 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-5 Bruce Allen > > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > > > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === > > SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED > > > > --- > > > > Hope this helps and that I found the correct places to copy the info. > > How about: > smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sdagrover:/poola/home/ed# smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda smartctl version 5.34 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-5 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: Maxtor 6L250S0 Serial Number: L50QDF3H Firmware Version: BACE1G10 User Capacity: 251,000,193,024 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 0 Local Time is: Sat Jan 21 16:34:26 2006 EST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x80) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (1922) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 99) minutes. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 252 252 063 Pre-fail Always - 571 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 2 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 253 253 063 Pre-fail Always - 0 6 Read_Channel_Margin 0x0001 253 253 100 Pre-fail Offline - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0027 250 240 187 Pre-fail Always - 49844 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 251 251 000 Old_age Always - 49644 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x002b 252 252 157 Pre-fail Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x002b 252 252 223 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 4 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0032 028 253 000 Old_age Always - 29 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 8656 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0008 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0008 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0008 199 199 000 Old_age Offline - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 1 202 TA_Increase_Count 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 203 Run_Out_Cancel 0x000b 253 252 180 Pre-fail Always - 0 204 Shock_Count_Write_Opern 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 205 Shock_Rate_Write_Opern 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 207 Spin_High_Current 0x002a 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 208 Spin_Buzz 0x002a 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 209 Offline_Seek_Performnce 0x0024 242 242 000 Old_age Offline - 143 210 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 211 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 212 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. > or, if that produces too much output, then at least the following two: > smartctl -A -d ata /dev/sda > smartctl -l error -d ata /dev/sda grover:/poola/home/ed# smartctl -l error -d ata /dev/sda smartctl version 5.34 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-5 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged > That way we might be able to figure out whether the disk > coincidentally started going bad after you updated the kernel. I suspect the newer kernel (or kernels) since when I revert to 15-rc5-mm3 all is well. Thanks, Ed Tomlinson - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html