Ominous smartd messages ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 08/03/16 07:24, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 08/03/16 04:41, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> My question is: Are these messages benign, or am I in the market for
>> more hardware ? *ANY* more questions, please ask. TIA & have a good one.
> It doesn't look particularly good.  Do you run the smartd selftests at
> all?  Worth giving that a go --
>
>     # smartctl -t long /dev/ada5
>
> This can be done while the disk is in use without upsetting anything.
> It will scan the disk for unreadable areas.  The disk does have a number
> of spare sectors it can use instead of any broken ones, but it generally
> needs to see a failed write to the affected area to trigger the
> substitution mechanism.  Once you run out of substitute sectors, the
> disk is basically toast and should be replaced.  With modern drives,
> seeing that mechanism in use at all typically means the drive is on the
> downward spiral and you should plan on replacing it PDQ.
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew
>
>


Thanks, I kicked that off just now, it says it will take 169 min. to 
complete, so we'll see. No more new messages overnight, maybe my luck is 
good ....

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