One of the hard drives are damaged.

Gins · 02-06-2011, 09:10 AM

Hello everybody

When the computer starts, you will read a flashing message about S.M.A.R.T and a few other things.

I have two hard drives. There is a strange noise from the computer when I run it for more than 3 or 4 hours continuously.

I firmly believe one of the hard drives is not working properly. I saw a message about a problem in S.M.A.R.T.

It was a flashing message. I couldn't read it. I don't run any Windows on the computer. All are Linux. The default is Mandriva.

How do I read the flashing message you see at the start of a computer?
I want to find out the damage one replace it with a new one.
Your thoughts are welcome.
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fdisk -l
The above command shows the following:

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes

/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
/dev/sda5
/dev/sda6
/dev/sda7
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Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes

/dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb2
/dev/sdb3
/dev/sdb4
/dev/sdb5
/dev/sdb6
/dev/sdb7

…............

Primary Master -- Samsung [200GB]
Secondary Slave -- Western Digital [500GB]

smoker · 02-06-2011, 09:19 AM

try http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/

You might also consider using GSmartControl too http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de/home...en/Screenshots

fordeck · 02-06-2011, 09:31 AM

Have you tried using the smartctl command to get information from the drive? Of course this will only work if the drive can still be seen from the system.

For example:

Code:

# smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Fujitsu MHV series
Device Model:     FUJITSU MHV2120AH
Serial Number:    NT59T822SWDW
Firmware Version: 000000A0
User Capacity:    120,034,123,776 bytes
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   7
ATA Standard is:  ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 4a
Local Time is:    Sun Feb  6 08:28:57 2011 MST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00)	Offline data collection activity
					was never started.
					Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0)	The previous self-test routine completed
					without error or no self-test has ever 
					been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection: 		 ( 647) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: 			 (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
					Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
					Suspend Offline collection upon new
					command.
					Offline surface scan supported.
					Self-test supported.
					Conveyance Self-test supported.
					Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)	Saves SMART data before entering
					power-saving mode.
					Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01)	Error logging supported.
					No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time: 	 (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 (  82) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 (   2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: 	       (0x003d)	SCT Status supported.
					SCT Feature Control supported.
					SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   100   100   046    Pre-fail  Always       -       76369
  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0005   100   100   030    Pre-fail  Offline      -       31784960
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   100   100   025    Pre-fail  Always       -       1
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       1761
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   024    Pre-fail  Always       -       8589934592000
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   100   100   047    Pre-fail  Always       -       129
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0005   100   100   019    Pre-fail  Offline      -       0
  9 Power_On_Seconds        0x0032   078   078   000    Old_age   Always       -       11251h+55m+11s
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   020    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1462
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       8
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   095   095   000    Old_age   Always       -       108026
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       34 (Lifetime Min/Max 17/43)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       881
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       455606272
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x000f   100   100   060    Pre-fail  Always       -       15286
203 Run_Out_Cancel          0x0002   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1533277897640

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%     10478         -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

Regards,

Fordeck

Gins · 02-06-2011, 09:39 AM

Thanks smoker
It seems my Mandriva is too old to run the smartcontrol program.

...............
[root@localhost smartmontools-5.40]# ./config.guess
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
[root@localhost smartmontools-5.40]#
...........................................

[root@localhost smartmontools-5.40]# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p

checking for gawk... gawk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no

checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no

checking for g++... no

checking for c++... no

checking for gpp... no

checking for aCC... no

checking for CC... no

checking for cxx... no

checking for cc++... no

checking for cl.exe... no

checking for FCC... no

checking for KCC... no

checking for RCC... no

checking for xlC_r... no

checking for xlC... no

checking whether the C++ compiler works... no

configure: error: in `/home/nissanka/smartmontools-5.40':
configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
[root@localhost smartmontools-5.40]#

Gins · 02-06-2011, 09:42 AM

[root@localhost ~]# su root
[root@localhost ~]#

[root@localhost ~]# smartctl -a
bash: smartctl: command not found
[root@localhost ~]#

H_TeXMeX_H · 02-06-2011, 10:17 AM

There are tools on this live CD to diagnose HDDs, either generic SMART or more low level manufacturer utils:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Gins · 02-06-2011, 01:51 PM

I have downloaded the UBCD. I hope I would find time to burn it and try withing next 72 hours.
As a matter of fact, I got an old UBCD at home. I think it is some 6 or 7 years old.

kebabbert · 12-27-2011, 07:43 AM

What does SMARTs say? Nissan.

rng · 12-30-2011, 08:08 PM

I have not used it personally but it is mentioned: DRIVE FITNESS TEST: to test hard disk of all makes: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/suppor...2_v416_b00.iso