Depafro
November 11th, 2009, 11:05 PM
Two nights ago my computer was locking up, then shutting itself down. I suspected the problem to be the hard drive, or RAM. RAM is being tested as I write, and has passed 1 pass of MEmtest86+ off the Ubuntu live CD so far. I can still access files on the drive.
Seatools Results:
Short Drive Self-test - FAIL
Long drive self-test FAIL
Short generic PASS
Long Generic PASS
SmartCTL Output:
sudo smartctl -s on -a /dev/sda2
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: FUJITSU MHY2250BH
Serial Number: K42RT7B25ADW
Firmware Version: 0000000B
User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 3f
Local Time is: Tue Nov 10 07:30:35 2009 PST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===
SMART 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: (1009) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
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: ( 143) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status 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 0x000f 100 100 046 Pre-fail Always - 42099
2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 030 Pre-fail Offline - 53149696
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 100 100 025 Pre-fail Always - 1
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 3335
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 024 Pre-fail Always - 8589934592000
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 047 Pre-fail Always - 2970
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 019 Pre-fail Offline - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 078 078 000 Old_age Always - 11127
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 020 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1046
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 48
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 35001
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 35 (Lifetime Min/Max 0/55)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 133
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 453509120
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 1
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 16204
203 Run_Out_Cancel 0x0002 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1533285041046
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
ATA Error Count: 68 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)
CR = Command Register [HEX]
FR = Features Register [HEX]
SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
ER = Error register [HEX]
ST = Status register [HEX]
Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.
Error 68 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11122 hours (463 days + 10 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 41 0b fc 58 fd 40
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
60 40 20 98 38 a9 40 00 00:57:58.372 READ FPDMA QUEUED
61 80 18 e0 0a 99 40 00 00:57:58.372 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
61 01 10 18 6d 28 40 00 00:57:58.372 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
61 10 08 48 58 fd 40 00 00:57:58.372 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
ef 10 02 00 00 00 40 00 00:57:58.372 SET FEATURES [Reserved for Serial ATA]
Error 67 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11122 hours (463 days + 10 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 41 13 d5 40 24 40
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
61 13 30 20 2d 12 40 00 00:56:38.343 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
61 01 28 e0 84 55 40 00 00:56:38.343 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
60 40 20 98 38 a9 40 00 00:56:38.343 READ FPDMA QUEUED
61 01 18 90 d3 28 40 00 00:56:38.343 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
61 08 10 a8 40 24 40 00 00:56:38.343 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
Error 66 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11122 hours (463 days + 10 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 41 13 3e 6d 28 40
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
61 10 20 48 58 fd 40 00 00:55:18.314 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
60 40 18 98 38 a9 40 00 00:55:18.314 READ FPDMA QUEUED
61 01 10 18 6d 28 40 00 00:55:18.314 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
ef 10 02 00 00 00 40 00 00:55:18.314 SET FEATURES [Reserved for Serial ATA]
ef 10 03 00 00 00 40 00 00:55:18.314 SET FEATURES [Reserved for Serial ATA]
Error 65 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11122 hours (463 days + 10 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 41 1b 35 08 7e 40
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
61 08 28 a8 40 24 40 00 00:54:03.623 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
60 40 20 98 38 a9 40 00 00:54:03.623 READ FPDMA QUEUED
61 08 18 08 08 7e 40 00 00:54:03.623 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
2f 00 01 10 00 00 40 00 00:54:03.479 READ LOG EXT
60 40 10 98 38 a9 40 00 00:53:58.286 READ FPDMA QUEUED
Error 64 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11122 hours (463 days + 10 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 41 13 be 38 a9 40
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
60 40 10 98 38 a9 40 00 00:53:58.286 READ FPDMA QUEUED
ef 10 02 00 00 00 40 00 00:53:58.285 SET FEATURES [Reserved for Serial ATA]
ef 10 03 00 00 00 40 00 00:53:58.285 SET FEATURES [Reserved for Serial ATA]
ef 03 45 00 00 00 40 00 00:53:58.285 SET FEATURES [Set transfer mode]
c6 00 10 00 00 00 40 00 00:53:58.285 SET MULTIPLE MODE
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 11120 27867326
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.
Do I need to buy a new drive?
What does "pre-fail" mean in the smartCTL results?
Which of these variables are important to look at?
Is being on error 68 a bad sign? How many errors are normal?
Seatools Results:
Short Drive Self-test - FAIL
Long drive self-test FAIL
Short generic PASS
Long Generic PASS
SmartCTL Output:
sudo smartctl -s on -a /dev/sda2
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: FUJITSU MHY2250BH
Serial Number: K42RT7B25ADW
Firmware Version: 0000000B
User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 3f
Local Time is: Tue Nov 10 07:30:35 2009 PST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===
SMART 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: (1009) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
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: ( 143) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status 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 0x000f 100 100 046 Pre-fail Always - 42099
2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 030 Pre-fail Offline - 53149696
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 100 100 025 Pre-fail Always - 1
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 3335
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 024 Pre-fail Always - 8589934592000
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 047 Pre-fail Always - 2970
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 019 Pre-fail Offline - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 078 078 000 Old_age Always - 11127
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 020 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1046
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 48
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 35001
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 35 (Lifetime Min/Max 0/55)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 133
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 453509120
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 1
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 16204
203 Run_Out_Cancel 0x0002 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1533285041046
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
ATA Error Count: 68 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)
CR = Command Register [HEX]
FR = Features Register [HEX]
SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
ER = Error register [HEX]
ST = Status register [HEX]
Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.
Error 68 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11122 hours (463 days + 10 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 41 0b fc 58 fd 40
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
60 40 20 98 38 a9 40 00 00:57:58.372 READ FPDMA QUEUED
61 80 18 e0 0a 99 40 00 00:57:58.372 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
61 01 10 18 6d 28 40 00 00:57:58.372 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
61 10 08 48 58 fd 40 00 00:57:58.372 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
ef 10 02 00 00 00 40 00 00:57:58.372 SET FEATURES [Reserved for Serial ATA]
Error 67 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11122 hours (463 days + 10 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 41 13 d5 40 24 40
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
61 13 30 20 2d 12 40 00 00:56:38.343 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
61 01 28 e0 84 55 40 00 00:56:38.343 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
60 40 20 98 38 a9 40 00 00:56:38.343 READ FPDMA QUEUED
61 01 18 90 d3 28 40 00 00:56:38.343 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
61 08 10 a8 40 24 40 00 00:56:38.343 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
Error 66 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11122 hours (463 days + 10 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 41 13 3e 6d 28 40
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
61 10 20 48 58 fd 40 00 00:55:18.314 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
60 40 18 98 38 a9 40 00 00:55:18.314 READ FPDMA QUEUED
61 01 10 18 6d 28 40 00 00:55:18.314 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
ef 10 02 00 00 00 40 00 00:55:18.314 SET FEATURES [Reserved for Serial ATA]
ef 10 03 00 00 00 40 00 00:55:18.314 SET FEATURES [Reserved for Serial ATA]
Error 65 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11122 hours (463 days + 10 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 41 1b 35 08 7e 40
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
61 08 28 a8 40 24 40 00 00:54:03.623 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
60 40 20 98 38 a9 40 00 00:54:03.623 READ FPDMA QUEUED
61 08 18 08 08 7e 40 00 00:54:03.623 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
2f 00 01 10 00 00 40 00 00:54:03.479 READ LOG EXT
60 40 10 98 38 a9 40 00 00:53:58.286 READ FPDMA QUEUED
Error 64 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11122 hours (463 days + 10 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 41 13 be 38 a9 40
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
60 40 10 98 38 a9 40 00 00:53:58.286 READ FPDMA QUEUED
ef 10 02 00 00 00 40 00 00:53:58.285 SET FEATURES [Reserved for Serial ATA]
ef 10 03 00 00 00 40 00 00:53:58.285 SET FEATURES [Reserved for Serial ATA]
ef 03 45 00 00 00 40 00 00:53:58.285 SET FEATURES [Set transfer mode]
c6 00 10 00 00 00 40 00 00:53:58.285 SET MULTIPLE MODE
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 11120 27867326
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.
Do I need to buy a new drive?
What does "pre-fail" mean in the smartCTL results?
Which of these variables are important to look at?
Is being on error 68 a bad sign? How many errors are normal?