Re: SATA exceptions

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Pavel Machek wrote:
>>>> 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?

Hmmm... We don't have any pending write when power goes out and I don't
emergency unload can directly increase reallocation count.  It can
shorten lifespan of the head tho.

> You might want to check if number of reallocated sectors increases
> with shutdowns/reboots.

I'm curious too.

-- 
tejun