From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934389AbXGLTxU (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:53:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757920AbXGLTxJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:53:09 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:3310 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757644AbXGLTxI (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:53:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:52:55 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Tejun Heo Cc: caglar@pardus.org.tr, Robert Hancock , LKML , Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: SATA exceptions Message-ID: <20070712195255.GA6015@ucw.cz> References: <468FD5ED.5060401@shaw.ca> <200707080035.05718.caglar@pardus.org.tr> <46928066.7000705@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46928066.7000705@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > >> 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. Hmm... cut the power while writing is doable from OS and might force reallocations? You might want to check if number of reallocated sectors increases with shutdowns/reboots. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html