Gordon Henderson wrote:
And do check your disks regularly, although I don't think current version of smartmontools fully supports sata under the scsi subsystem yet...
Actually, if you are using a UP machine, the libata-dev tree has patches that make this work. I believe there may be races on SMP machines however.
All 29 drives get a short test every morning and a long test every Sunday morning. Odd results are immediately E-mailed to me by smartd.
storage1:/home/brad# smartctl -A -d ata /dev/sda smartctl version 5.32 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === 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 - 5622 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 20 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 250 248 187 Pre-fail Always - 35232 9 Power_On_Minutes 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 457h+24m 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x002b 252 252 157 Pre-fail Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x002b 253 252 223 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 34 192 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 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 35 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 1411 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 - 3 202 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 194 194 000 Old_age Offline - 0 99 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 100 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 101 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
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