Another case of the vanishing disk

cruxpot cruxpot at gmail.com
Sun Mar 16 05:28:32 UTC 2014


All four disks have similar smartctl stats as far as those alarms go.
Are you trying to tell me that all four of my disks are about to die?
The sudden crashes have already been happening.

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Erich Dollansky
<erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> get a new disk as fast as possible.
>
> On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 23:48:58 -0500
> cruxpot <cruxpot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> messages:Mar 13 03:03:11 bsdbox kernel: ata4: port is not ready
>> (timeout 15000ms) tfd = 0000ffff
>
> First alarm bell is on.
>
>> UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>>   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   100   099   006    Pre-fail
>> Always       -       1476032
>
> Second alarm bell.
>
>>   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   078   060   030    Pre-fail
>> Always       -       64570250
>
> Third alarm bell.
>
>>   9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   077   077   000    Old_age
>> Always       -       20524
>
> Warranty should be still on then.
>
>> 188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   097   000    Old_age
>> Always       -       50
>
> Fourth alarm bell.
>
>> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   037   004   000    Old_age
>> Always       -       1476032
>
> I think I cannot count that far.
>
> A disk with raw errors is not dead yet but it is a clear sign that
> something is wrong. Be prepared for a sudden crash.
>
> Erich


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