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Hi,

My SCSI harddisk shows error when i run smartctl. Today server when down, on rebooting i get following email.

This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on:

host name: server32.hosthat.com
DNS domain: hosthat.com
NIS domain: (none)

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

Device: /dev/sda, SMART Failure: HARDWARE IMPENDING FAILURE DATA ERROR RATE TOO HIGH

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.

I run smartctl, got following result

[root@server32 ~]# smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.33 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Device: FUJITSU MAP3367NP Version: 0108
Serial number: UPU0P51017SN
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: Parallel SCSI (SPI-4)
Local Time is: Tue Dec 12 18:55:33 2006 GMT
Device supports SMART and is Enabled
Temperature Warning Enabled
SMART Health Status: HARDWARE IMPENDING FAILURE DATA ERROR RATE TOO HIGH [asc=5d,ascq=12]

Current Drive Temperature: 35 C
Drive Trip Temperature: 65 C
Manufactured in week 04 of year 2005
Current start stop count: 115 times
Recommended maximum start stop count: 10000 times

Error counter log:
Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total
EEC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected
fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors
read: 0 2591 8282 0 0 13439.627 8282
write: 0 7998 17 0 0 9638.314 17
verify: 0 2101 8028 0 0 37.981 8028

Non-medium error count: 320

Error Events logging not supported
No self-tests have been logged
Long (extended) Self Test duration: 1479 seconds [24.6 minutes]
[root@server32 ~]#

I contacted DC, got following reply

I need to verify but I am not 100% sure that SCSI disks are SMARTD compatible and you could be getting a false reading. You are better off using the SCSI utility for your card and have it check the disk health. Depending on your card your using there is likely and agent or other software you can use from the manufacture to check the health.

How do i make sure my Hard disk is not going to die ?

Thanks,

Yujin