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Date:      Wed, 3 Aug 2016 14:25:55 -0453.75
From:      "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ominous smartd messages ....
Message-ID:  <52094d0d-32bc-19e9-4cef-d67ed4e7aeb0@hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: <20160803163937.GA21629@milliways.localdomain>
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On 08/03/16 11:45, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 07:37:50AM -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> On 08/03/16 07:24, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>>> On 08/03/16 04:41, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>>> My question is: Are these messages benign, or am I in the market for
>>>> more hardware ? *ANY* more questions, please ask. TIA & have a good one.
>>> It doesn't look particularly good.  Do you run the smartd selftests at
>>> all?  Worth giving that a go --
>>>
>>>      # smartctl -t long /dev/ada5
>>>
>>> This can be done while the disk is in use without upsetting anything.
>>> It will scan the disk for unreadable areas.  The disk does have a number
>>> of spare sectors it can use instead of any broken ones, but it generally
>>> needs to see a failed write to the affected area to trigger the
>>> substitution mechanism.  Once you run out of substitute sectors, the
>>> disk is basically toast and should be replaced.  With modern drives,
>>> seeing that mechanism in use at all typically means the drive is on the
>>> downward spiral and you should plan on replacing it PDQ.
>>>
>>> 	Cheers,
>>>
>>> 	Matthew
>>>
>> Thanks, I kicked that off just now, it says it will take 169 min. to
>> complete, so we'll see. No more new messages overnight, maybe my luck is
>> good ....
>>
> I agree with Matthew, and since your custom script seemed to ignore
> all the items which I regard as relevant, after the long test has
> finished run smartctl -a on that drive and look at things like
> Reallocated Sector Count and Pending (if that is still present).
> plus any other error fields.
>
> ĸen


OK:


[root@devbox, /etc, 2:22:57pm] 373 % smartctl -a /dev/ada5
smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p33 amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     HGST Travelstar 7K1000
Device Model:     HGST HTS721010A9E630
Serial Number:    JR10046P1E69HN
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 7dcd41800
Firmware Version: JB0OA3J0
User Capacity:    1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
Form Factor:      2.5 inches
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 6
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Wed Aug  3 14:23:03 2016 MCDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
                                         was never started.
                                         Auto Offline Data Collection: 
Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      ( 121) The previous self-test completed 
having
                                         the read element of the test 
failed.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection:                (   45) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:                    (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                                         Auto Offline data collection 
on/off support.
                                         Suspend Offline collection upon new
                                         command.
                                         Offline surface scan supported.
                                         Self-test supported.
                                         No Conveyance Self-test supported.
                                         Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
                                         power-saving mode.
                                         Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
                                         General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        ( 169) minutes.
SCT capabilities:              (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
                                         SCT Error Recovery Control 
supported.
                                         SCT Feature Control supported.
                                         SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED  
WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000b   091   091   062    Pre-fail 
Always       -       3538944
   2 Throughput_Performance  0x0005   100   100   040    Pre-fail 
Offline      -       0
   3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   100   100   033    Pre-fail 
Always       -       2
   4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age 
Always       -       5
   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   005    Pre-fail 
Always       -       0
   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000b   100   100   067    Pre-fail 
Always       -       0
   8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0005   100   100   040    Pre-fail 
Offline      -       0
   9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   085   085   000    Old_age 
Always       -       6678
  10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   060    Pre-fail 
Always       -       0
  12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age 
Always       -       5
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x000a   100   100   000    Old_age 
Always       -       0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age 
Always       -       2
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0012   034   034   000    Old_age 
Always       -       668237
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0002   230   230   000    Old_age 
Always       -       26 (Min/Max 14/31)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age 
Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age 
Always       -       8
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   100   100   000    Old_age 
Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   200   000    Old_age 
Always       -       0
223 Load_Retry_Count        0x000a   100   100   000    Old_age 
Always       -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining 
LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       90% 6671         
167940256

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
  SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
     1        0        0  Not_testing
     2        0        0  Not_testing
     3        0        0  Not_testing
     4        0        0  Not_testing
     5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
   After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

[root@devbox, /etc, 2:23:04pm] 374 %


Reallocated sectors zero (0) .... so where am I ? Thanks & TIA & have a 
good one.

-- 

	William A. Mahaffey III

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	"The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war
	 ever devised by man."
                            -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.




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