Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
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Hard drive errors: probably 2 bad sectors and nothing is working
All started with bsod from WindowsXP: unmountable boot volume.
Then I tried ubuntu and Palimpsest. SMART status was OK (2 bad sectors), but all test failed on "reading system" (I don't know if I ...
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How are SMART selftests related to badblocks?
The smartctl tool allows initiating a long self-test (smartctl -t long /dev/sda). However there's also badblocks that I can run on a drive. How are the two related? If badblocks detects bad blocks, ...
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Is the 3ware software worth installing for a mirror? [closed]
I have several servers running CentOS 5 and CentOS 6 with a 3ware 9650 mirroring the boot drive. I have smartd set up to monitor drive health (/dev/twaX). So my question is, what real value is there ...
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Is my HDD falling?
I tested my HDD with command:
smartctl -t long /dev/sda
I checked status of test with command:
smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda
This is the output:
smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 ...
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HP Proliant Smart Array Controller P800 Battery replacement
I have a proliant server which requires a cache battery replacement.
Can you please advise what are the implications if this is not replaced over time.
many thanks
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How To Change Dell Bios Settings Remotely?
I recently noticed at a clients that their Dell laptops appear to have SMART disabled in bios by default. I noticed this while swapping out a disk on a desktop which had failed without any warning.. ...
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Why can't i recover a RAID1 disk which apparently has no errors
For several years now we run a software RAID1 on a old Gentoo box with a custom Linux 2.6.31. The RAID consists of 2 harddisk with 4 partitions each. In the last years it happend about 3-4 times that ...
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How to get more informatin regarding a Synology S.M.A.R.T error
I have a 3TB Seagate Barracuda (ST3000DM001-9YN1) that is less than a year old, and my Synology DS1512+ is reporting it as "S.M.A.R.T. Status = Abnormal" and telling me to replace the drive.
While I ...
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Drive is failing but LSI MegaRAID controller does not detect it
smartmontools reports an increasing number of unreadable sectors on a drive that is used in a RAID1 configuration. I thought that the LSI MegaRAID controller also checks the SMART status of its disk ...
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S.M.A.R.T. (smart) attribute 190 failing on Seagate Backup Plus 4TB drive
I am using a Seagate Backup Plus 4TB drive attached over USB to a Linux box.
The drive model is ST4000DX000-1CL160.
When checking the S.M.A.R.T. attributes I get:
$ sudo smartctl -a -d sat ...
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HP Proliant ML350 G6 Smart Error Test
I have a ML350 G6 with two array controllers : P410 and P410i. I have updated all possibile firmware on this server. I have 5 x Seagate Savvio 10K SAS drives. I am testing the drives with HP Insight ...
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SMART and exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
looking at the logs I see several errors. The smart status is PASSED, but even if It is verbose It isn't clear what is going on. Should the disk be replaced?
Attached dmesg and smart logs
# dmesg
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Both hard disk fault at same time [closed]
Today one of the my computers have strange log.
At 8:00 both hard disks start to have errors like this:
Feb 9 07:24:48 bill2 kernel: ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) ...
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Simulate a SMART error on a drive for test purposes?
We are monitoring the disks on our servers using Smartmontools and Nagios with the check_smartmon or another Nagios plugin. It appears to work, as there are no errors. But how do I know if it is truly ...
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smartctl reports Current Pending Sectors as 2, but a long test doesn't find any errors
The SMART attributes on the drive are:
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH ...
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Does regularly running smartctl negatively affect disks?
I have many servers in different data centers. Lately I had some disk failures that I probably could've detected beforehand, so I started automatically running smartctl -t periodically on each disk. ...
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what's the purpose of SMART's captive test?
When testing hard disk with SMART (for instance using smartctl tool) I can do tests (for instance long test) in two modes: captive (also called foreground mode) or non captive. Non captive mode is ...
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Munin's smart plugin keeps reporting an error in the past because of the exit code
My hosting provider has inserted a hard drive into my server which seems to have had some sort of error in the past but a full offline smart check showed that everything is (about) ok at the moment. ...
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Linux RAID10 hit bad disk while re-syncing. Is it hosed?
I have a Linux software RAID10 device on md0. It's made up of 4 1TB disks sd[abcd]. Yesterday Smart emailed me to say a disk was going bad (seek errors going up and reallocated sectors). I rebooted ...
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Does smartd launch selftests if “-s” option is not provided?
man smartd.conf states that -s option specifies the time for running disk tests. Are they run if this option is not provided?
I mean does smartd try to figure out the appropriate time on his own or ...
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smartctl not actually running self tests?
I want to run the smartctl self tests to check the health of the drives in my RAID array (PERC 5/i). The array is on sda and comprises six drives. I can check the status using
sudo smartctl ...
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Why does unpartitioned Hitachi HDS5C3020 drive start consuming 50% more power 15 minutes after boot?
In a Debian 6.0.6 system there are 74 pieces of 2TB Toshiba DT01ABA200 drives. These drives are identified as Hitachi HDS5C3020BLE630 drives running firmware revision MZ4OAAB0. 64 Drives attached via ...
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Is my hard drive about to die?
I have two hard drives set up as a RAID 1 array on my server (Linux, software RAID using mdadm) and one of them just got me this "present" in syslog:
Nov 23 02:05:29 h2 kernel: [7305215.338153] ...
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The best nagios plugin for SMART?
I've tried the best plugin for nagios to SMART monitoring. There are some, but only monitoring temperature. But with smartctl we can find more data. Do you have some better plugins with all data from ...
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Understanding the S.M.A.R.T. values from a Synology 1812+ device
I have a Synology 1812+ NAS with 8 3TB drives configured as RAID 5. Its running DSM 4.1. It was purchased to replace USB drives, consolidate storage and short term OS X backups using Time Machine. ...
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RAID1 rebuild fails due to disk errors
Quick info: Dell R410 with 2x500GB drives in RAID1 on H700 Adapter
Recently one of drives in RAID1 array on server failed, lets call it Drive 0. RAID controller marked it as fault and put it offline. ...
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Possible to reset SMART logs?
I got two 2TB seagate disks that show SMART error on bootup. I ran the seagate disk utility check and it passed the full test. But the SMART error says both drive have exceeded 70C in temperature so ...
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SMART with Megaraid under windows
Is there a way to read RAW HDD SMART value that is behind a MegaRaid raid?
apparently that is possible with smartmontools under linux, is there something similar possible with windows?
Thanks.
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Is smartd properly configured to send alerts by email?
I just configured a Debian server as follows
apt-get install smartmontools
vi /etc/default/smartmontools - and here uncommented these 2 lines
# uncomment to start smartd on system startup
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Understanding smartctl -a output
I have 6 drives in a NAS box. Two of them are Seagates, and they return high RAW_VALUES for errors; see below.
My other drives show far lower values.
Is this cause for alarm? Or just the way ...
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Centos 5.5 - Smartctl/hdparm strange behavior with both HDDs
I found out one of our servers was down today due to a HDD failure. The only thing I could see on console the was:
scsi 0:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device.
This server has 2 HDDs with a software ...
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Adaptec 6405 RAID controller turned on red LED
I have a server with an Adaptec 6405 RAID controller and 4 disks in a RAID 5 configuration. Staff in the data center called me because they noticed a red LED was turned on in one of the drive bays.
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smartd: Device: /dev/sda, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW
System: Centos 5.5 64bit
RAID: Linux Soft RAID with 2 Disks Mirror
Smartd complains about the disk failure in system log:
[root@xxx ~]# tail /var/log/messages
Jul 3 10:22:45 w11 smartd[6043]: ...
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Can't get any SMART or temperature data from HDDs
I have a PC with recently installed Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 MB.
I've encountered some weird problem with getting SMART data or temperature for HDDs. Every single tool I've tried in Windows 7 just can't ...
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Monitor SMART Values of a SAS/SCSI drive with Munin
I'm trying to monitor my two SAS drives using the SMART Tools Plugin for MUNIN.
On SATA drives its no problem, all SMART values are being shown.
It seems that smartctl doesn't output valuable SMART ...
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how to use a disk with high reallocated sector count?
After 3 years in 24x7 service a 1TB Seagate Barracuda ES.2 enterprise drive is showing signs of failure. S.M.A.R.T. reallocated sector count is high.
Wikipedia article suggests that the drive can ...
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How do you monitor SSD wear in Windows when the drives are presented as 'generic' devices?
Under Linux, we can monitor SSD wear fairly easily with smartmontools whether the drive is presented as a normal block device or a generic device (which happens when the drive has been hardware RAIDed ...
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is UNC S.M.A.R.T. Error serious? need to take action?
I have a 300G Western Digital Raptor, recently showing UNC SMART, wondering anyone who has experience knows should I replace it and get warranty form WD?
Details of smartctl -a as follows:
smartctl ...
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Getting Proliant P212 disk SMART diagnostics in Centos 6.2/RHEL
Does anyone know how I can monitor (either gui or shell) the health status of my SATA disks via the P212 (256Mb) controller card of my ProLiant ML110 G6 ? I've currently got Centos 6.2 64bit installed ...
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Inexplicably slow Western Digital WD15EARS disk
I have four disks, of which two are WD15EARS, in a server and I'm trying to put the two WD15EARS's in Linux mdadm RAID, but for some reason, the array's performance is very slow (it syncs at about 15 ...
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HP Smart Array P400/256MB SAS Controller BATTERY
This is probably a dumb question.
I recently purchased a couple of refurbished HP SB40C storage blade for our HP Bladesystem c3000 enclosure. Each comes with an HP Smart Array P400/256MB SAS ...
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Read SMART status on Windows Server 2008 R2
How can I read my hard drives SMART status on Windows Server 2008 R2?
I'm using IBM X3630 X3 server with IBM ServeRAID M5015 disk drives
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Server is giving me a SMART Failure Predicted
I have an older xSeries 306 that has started giving me a SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 2: SATA Port 0 message, a warning about backing up, and a message to Press F1 to continue. It's my ...
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Collect smart hard disk data
How can I view SMART data on hardrives either on individual machines or (prefered) across an enterprise under windows 7/2008 r2?
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run and track SMART tests of harddisks
At our shop we have nagios checks for the SMART status of hard disks in linux servers, but it hasn't been really useful so far: by the time we get a SMART alarm the system already had problems so we ...
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How can I locally analyze SMART logs from a server?
I have Ubuntu 10.04 server running on a desktop at home. I rebooted, and the machine was unreachable after 10 minutes or so. At this point I should have connected a console (monitor using VGA cable). ...
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Can i remapped bad block on Live RHEL5 system using following command
I am getting following disk error on one of my server
smartd[4235]: Device: /dev/sda, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Can i apply following command to repair bad block on live RHEL5 system ...
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SCSI error: return code = 0x08000002, sense key: Aborted Command
The kernel logs:
ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fffffff SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata2.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
ata2.00: cmd 61/08:f0:6f:5b:97/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 30 ncq 4096 out
res ...
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Does this SMART selftest indicate a failing drive?
I'm wondering if the results of this SMART selftest indicate a failing drive, this is the only drive that comes up with 'completed: read failure' in the results.
# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sde
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Quick method to determine SSD drive health?
I have an Intel X-25M drive that was marked "failed" twice in a ZFS storage array, as noted here. However, after removing the drive, it seems to to mount, read and write in other computers (Mac, PC, ...
