Re: SATA exceptions

[Bill Davidsen]

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> S.ÃaÄlar Onur wrote:
> > 07 Tem 2007 Cts tarihinde, Robert Hancock ÅunlarÄ yazmÄÅtÄ: 
> > > It's not the free space on the drive that matters, it's the number of
> > > free sectors in the spare sector pool on the drive, which is invisible
> > > to software.
> > >
> > > Your SMART log shows 309 reallocated sectors. That seems somewhat high..
> > Ah sorry to misinterpret the content:), its a quiet new piece of hardware (at 
> > most ~1.5 month old) and  "Reallocated_Event_Count" constantly increases 
> > (currently its increased to 313) and although i'm not 100 percent sure these 
> > errors only occured with kernels > 2.6.18 (or 2.6.18 didn't report these 
> > cause according to kern.log these only visible with 2.6.22+) 
>
> OS and driver can't really do much about the reallocation event.  Some
> number of reallocations is okay but if you it going up constantly, you
> probably have a dying disk.
Or, as I learned the hard way, if you have the problem on all drives 
sharing a power supply, a power issue.

> > We bought 3 HP Pavillon dv2385ea and one of them only runs with 2.6.18 and its 
> > smartctl output follows as a reference;
> >
> >   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   253   253   010    Pre-fail  
> > 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   253   253   000    Old_age   
>
> Hmm... This is pretty high too.  Do the counts increase on this machine too?


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