HDD failing?!... - SMART error (FailedHealthCheck) detected on host *****

jaggy00 · 11-19-2008, 01:56 AM

Got those two messages today:

Quote:

This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on:

host name: ****.ge
DNS domain: ****.ge
NIS domain: (none)

The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:

Device: /dev/sdb, not capable of SMART self-check

For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages).

You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation.
No additional email messages about this problem will be sent.

and:

Quote:

This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on:

host name: *****.ge
DNS domain: *****.ge
NIS domain: (none)

The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:

Device: /dev/sdb, failed to read SMART Attribute Data

For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages).

You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation.
No additional email messages about this problem will be sent.

What do they mean exactly? Has anyone encountered this error before? And if yes what were the consequences?

Any help appreciated.

bitpicker · 11-19-2008, 03:37 AM

Possibly S.M.A.R.T. used to be enabled for your harddrive in BIOS and now isn't anymore. You can check that in your BIOS.

Robin

jaggy00 · 11-20-2008, 12:57 AM

Why could it turn off? By the way after receiving those messages I tried to access the HDD in question and got I/O error. However mount was still visible in df -h output. I tried to unmount and it hung up the whole system.

So I just removed the hard drive and replaced it with another one. Do you think that was the right decision?

cladisch · 11-20-2008, 02:06 AM

Quote:

after receiving those messages I tried to access the HDD in question and got I/O error.
I tried to unmount and it hung up the whole system.

Apparently your HDD had died completely, and the SMART daemon just happened to be the first program that tried to access it.

Quote:

So I just removed the hard drive and replaced it with another one. Do you think that was the right decision?

Yes.