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Re: [suse-amd64] lost interrupts problem
- From: Volker Kuhlmann <hidden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 23:04:16 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <20041125230401.GE8389@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Thanks. I was confused by the output, which said:-
> "SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED"
The sum total of what the disk thinks of itself. If it ever changes to
FAILED you try save what you can before going for lunch. In my limited
(3 cases) experience, disks are *$@@ed well before this goes FAILED.
> > Run the short and long tests, -t short and -t long, waiting for each
> > to finish. Then run smartctl -a and check for errors.
>
> Both tests completed without error.
The disk doesn't find anything much wrong with itself. If the
reallocatedsectorcount is also 0, you should have nothing to worry.
> Perhaps it's not a disk error but a controller or driver error
More likely now.
> Would that show up in these tests?
No, unless it corrupts some transfer such that the smart command "tell
me your status" becomes "do a low-level format".
Volker
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> "SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED"
The sum total of what the disk thinks of itself. If it ever changes to
FAILED you try save what you can before going for lunch. In my limited
(3 cases) experience, disks are *$@@ed well before this goes FAILED.
> > Run the short and long tests, -t short and -t long, waiting for each
> > to finish. Then run smartctl -a and check for errors.
>
> Both tests completed without error.
The disk doesn't find anything much wrong with itself. If the
reallocatedsectorcount is also 0, you should have nothing to worry.
> Perhaps it's not a disk error but a controller or driver error
More likely now.
> Would that show up in these tests?
No, unless it corrupts some transfer such that the smart command "tell
me your status" becomes "do a low-level format".
Volker
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