On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 11:17 +0000, G T Smith wrote:
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Carlos E. R. wrote:
Watch out: "media error", and more than one time.
Dec 3 18:06:30 nirvana kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
This is prety bad.
Hard disks have some space allocated by the manufacturer to remap the bad sectors that develop during its lifetime. This is normal, don't worry. The problem is when that space fills up completely, and that has happened to your's, I think. It means end of life for the HD.
smartctl --health /dev/sda smartctl -a /dev/sda
OOC, I ran smartctl --health on a few systems. On one, I get: === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Please note the following marginal Attributes: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 9 Power_On_Seconds 0x0012 001 001 020 Old_age Always FAILING_NOW 61430h+32m+38s That looks ominous. I do not have any problems with the system. The disk is mainly letting the OS boot and run. All activity is on another disk. Is it just reporting that the disk as been powered on for over 5 years and is getting old? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org