From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 5 03:15:01 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42E5216A418 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 03:15:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB45613C447 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 03:15:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g13so1768759rvb.43 for ; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:15:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=hcK4mplhM6ESP2NgFaJWYN9z8r7Iz6H0QOOzzrJK46U=; b=HxeRcIq3LtGAshTSxlUfxf35TWD+h5wqpag+zZNBgqrtA3msnivUYcdJuiMZr0pmiXywBQMh4jnLNxsqOKyTMMHVVOOAyhtgR18fnTdI1VlVlfNUewUBOgrmHMqWLBqW3YFyDLZkj6qqJUEMESFijlq65PkgLsUcr8scI9X4Sso= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=rtP9kq7tUo1an/Ds+YQFlkewLDOaSUrlvZl+XqwuCXRqn8Q06LCC762XHwvq8oW1fBFhH9bTEs/bnlbvSAwZaogZ6QJLOU7g9q8rPXvxN+x9ZpwfRjDonOoRxifWlldrVvW7Bup6qzo/KSqOJTrt5I+sMwGt7PgHuPX6+15glYY= Received: by 10.140.147.18 with SMTP id u18mr5248180rvd.202.1202181300100; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:15:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from sniper ( [71.221.189.178]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k41sm5643954rvb.24.2008.02.04.19.14.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:14:58 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Falanga To: FreeBSD Questions Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:14:39 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802042014.40016.af300wsm@gmail.com> Subject: Please help in diagnosing these smartmon messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:15:01 -0000 HI, I just installed smartmontools from ports on my churches system and I think I'm glad I did. However, not being completely familiar with it, I'd like some help with the messages (and errors) that have been discovered thus far (since I installed it on Saturday, yikes!). First was this, and it's repeated in the log /var/log/messages frequently: Feb 4 18:19:44 whitbap smartd[64783]: Device: /dev/ad0, 12 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Even though this entry comes from today, this was e-mailed to me within hours of enabling smartd on Saturday. I understand what sectors are and I know what unreadable is. I was wondering what "pending" meant. Then, yesterday I was e-mailed this one: Feb 3 02:49:44 whitbap smartd[64783]: Device: /dev/ad0, Self-Test Log error count increased from 0 to 1 Using smartctl I found that option "-l" with the argument "selftest" would give me more information. This is what I found: whitbap# smartctl -l selftest /dev/ad0 smartctl version 5.37 [i386-portbld-freebsd6.2] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 70% 60397 67413 # 2 Short offline Completed: read failure 70% 60373 67413 I know it's probably near impossible to know exactly how much longer this drive has, but how serious are these errors? As I mentioned, the unreadable sectors on the hard drive are repeated many times in the log ( > 100 times). Thanks all, Andy