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10-29-2006, 06:07 AM #1Web Hosting Master
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[cPanel smartcheck] Possible Hard Drive Failure Soon
I keep receiving the following messages (email):
S.M.A.R.T Errors on /dev/hda
From Command: /usr/sbin/smartctl -q errorsonly -H -l selftest -l error /dev/hda
Warning: ATA error count 44 inconsistent with error log pointer 5
ATA Error Count: 44 (device log contains only the most recent five errors) Error 44 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 6264 hours (261 days + 0 hours) Error 43 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 6253 hours (260 days + 13 hours) Error 42 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 6253 hours (260 days + 13 hours) Error 41 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 6253 hours (260 days + 13 hours) Error 40 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 6253 hours (260 days + 13 hours)
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The HD is a maxtor 80gb, so I used maxtors hd checking tool and the hd passed.
So are the messages an os problem?
cPanel/WHM
CentOS 4.4
Thanks
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10-29-2006, 06:55 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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I trust Maxtor disks about as far as I can throw them. I would suggest to be safe that you ask the datacenter to replace the disk with a Western Digital RAID Edition disk and then copy the information over. Even better would be to setup RAID-1. The disk might only be 8 months old or thereabouts but it could just die very quickly
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10-29-2006, 12:30 PM #3Aspiring Evangelist
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agree with a2b2, Maxtor has been giving faulty drives for most of the servers we have used after a year in production. You should change it as soon as you can..
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10-29-2006, 12:35 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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A few years back we did a block of 10 servers when starting out which had some 40GB Maxtors in, real budget end machines. Anyway with 6 months I ended up replacing every single disk as they all died with Segates, and most of those are still going today.. I might of got a bad batch but I'm just avoiding them now
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10-29-2006, 12:56 PM #5Predatory Poster
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You didn't get a bad batch. Maxtor drives simply cannot handle heat especially the poor cooling involved in a server environment.
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10-29-2006, 12:59 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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Maxtors seem fine in pc's, all my pc's have maxtor drives. Thats why I decided to go for a maxtor in my server, but they dont seem to like being on 24x7!!
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10-29-2006, 01:32 PM #7Local tech for Los Angeles
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There IDEs are bad, the SATAs are nice.
I would move off the drive asap.. Tell your provider the drive is going back, ask them to clone it to a new drive, ask them to leave the old drive in the server so you can mount it if any problems.Last edited by Jeremy; 10-29-2006 at 01:41 PM.