[aklug] Re: hard drive issues

Good info!
Thanks Greg.
          Bob Pelz

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Greg Madden <gomadtroll@acsalaska.net>wrote:

> A few cosmic convergences happening with my IDE storage.
> 1. I have hda & hdb, both loose DMA settings reliably.
> 2. Smartmontools 'smartctl' reports a high count :
> 'Raw_Read_Error_Rate', 'Seek_Error_Rate', fortunately? the
> 'Hardware_ECC_Recovered' equals the 'Raw_Read_Error_Rate'.
>
> The 'Reallocated_Sector_Ct' is at zero which means that, afaikt, that
> nothing is physically happening, yet. Also the 'Current_Pending_Sector'
> & 'Offline_Uncorrectable' count is zero.
> It should be noted that the smartmon stuff reports errors but does not
> fix them.
>
> 3. It was mentioned Friday Nite the Steve Gibson's 'Spinrite' tools
> fixes magnetic media issues. Unwilling to spend $89 on a 'black box'
> solution
> I found the tools in Linux that do the same.
> http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html
>
> A brief list of tools:
> smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda
> smartctl -A /dev/hda
> fdisk -lu /dev/hda
> Tune2fs -l /dev/hda3 | grep Block
> debugfs, cool tool .
> and "dd'
>
> A quick fix :'e2fsck with, at least, the -c option,
> which uses 'badblocks' and moves data, remaps bad blocks :-)
>
> Google is full of hits on the results of SMART enabled drives. Me
> thinks it causes much wasted time and anxiety. I mention this because
> the new Ubuntu 9.10 is using a new hard drive health tool that pops up
> on every boot telling the user that the hard drive is ABOUT to fail.
>
> I am maybe a litle closer to understanding hard drive issues :-) I
> have renewed interest in backups.
>
> ps, I used the 'System Rescue Cd' on an Ext4 partition.
>
>
> --
> Peace
>
> Greg Madden
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