From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758055AbXGKRQH (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:16:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751490AbXGKRPz (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:15:55 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:56210 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751218AbXGKRPy convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:15:54 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: SATA exceptions Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:20:15 -0400 Message-ID: <4695114F.1010206@tmr.com> References: <468FD5ED.5060401@shaw.ca> <200707080035.05718.caglar@pardus.org.tr> <46928066.7000705@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org Cc: caglar@pardus.org.tr, Robert Hancock , LKML , Jeff Garzik X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-70-109-119-137.alb.east.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 In-Reply-To: <46928066.7000705@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > S.Çağlar Onur wrote: >> 07 Tem 2007 Cts tarihinde, Robert Hancock şunları yazmıştı: >>> 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? > -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot