[oclug] SMART drive report - imminent failure indicated?

[brownj-oclug at ack.ca]

Brett,
I just tried ide-smart on my own drive.
It is my understanding that:
PreFailure or Advisory indicates what the test means if the test fails.
OnLine or OffLine indicates if the drive can be in use or not for the test
to take place.
The "important" field is the Pass or Fail, and it appears that the drive
has passed all tests.
You may want to you ide-smart to force the offline tests to be sure, but
according to the SMART tests, your drive appears fine.


On Tue, 20 Aug 2002,
Brett Delmage
wrote:

> The Toshiba hard drive that came in my new IBM laptop has made an
> intermittent buzzing sound since I first powered on the machine, followed
> by a bunch of head seeking. The sound makes me think the drive is
> encountering an error and retrying/recalibrating. It's not a sound I have
> heard before excpet when blocks were rapidly dropping off the platters.
>
> The SMART logging with the other OS that came installed on the laptop
> indicated no problems. But I just installed linux and ran smart-ide with
> the following results. Hmm.
>
> If I understand the man page correctly, the following results are not
> good. Any experienced people out there who can confirm that I should call
> IBM right away and demand a replacement drive? Or that I have nothing to
> worry about...?
>
> In any case, I don't have valuable data on this machine just now. A disk
> crash will be an annoyance but not a disaster. But one that I would prefer
> to avoid.
>
> 	Brett
>
> ide-smart /dev/hda
>
> Id=  1, Status=11 {PreFailure , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold= 50, Passed
> Id=  2, Status= 5 {PreFailure , OffLine}, Value=100, Threshold= 50, Passed
> Id=  3, Status=39 {PreFailure , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold=  1, Passed
> Id=  4, Status=50 {Advisory    , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold=  0, Passed
> Id=  5, Status=51 {PreFailure , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold= 50, Passed
> Id=  7, Status=11 {PreFailure , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold= 50, Passed
> Id=  8, Status= 5 {PreFailure , OffLine}, Value=100, Threshold= 50, Passed
> Id=  9, Status=50 {Advisory    , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold=  0, Passed
> Id= 10, Status=51 {PreFailure , OnLine }, Value=106, Threshold= 30, Passed
> Id= 12, Status=50 {Advisory    , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold=  0, Passed
> Id=192, Status=50 {Advisory    , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold=  0, Passed
> Id=193, Status=50 {Advisory    , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold=  0, Passed
> Id=196, Status=50 {Advisory    , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold=  0, Passed
> Id=197, Status=50 {Advisory    , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold=  0, Passed
> Id=198, Status=48 {Advisory    , OffLine}, Value=100, Threshold=  0, Passed
> Id=199, Status=50 {Advisory    , OnLine }, Value=200, Threshold=  0, Passed
> Id=220, Status= 2 {Advisory    , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold=  0, Passed
> Id=222, Status=50 {Advisory    , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold=  0, Passed
> Id=223, Status=50 {Advisory    , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold=  0, Passed
> Id=224, Status=34 {Advisory    , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold=  0, Passed
> Id=226, Status=38 {Advisory    , OnLine }, Value=100, Threshold=  0, Passed
> Id=240, Status= 1 {PreFailure , OffLine}, Value=100, Threshold=  1, Passed
> OffLineStatus=0 {NeverStarted}, AutoOffLine=No, OffLineTimeout=5 minutes
> OffLineCapability=27 {Immediate Auto SuspendOnCmd}
> SmartRevision=16, CheckSum=241, SmartCapability=3 {SaveOnStandBy AutoSave}
>
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Jeff Brown
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