SMART is a monitoring system built into modern hard-drives which monitors various factors that may affect drive reliability, such as read/write errors, bad sectors, high temperature, etc. When these factors exceed a certain value, SMART can predict that the drive is about to fail, and warns the user ...
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I have 4029 bad sectors. Should I worry?
My SATA drive is from 2009 and has been under some circumstances where it's not "Pleasant" for the drive, such as blackouts (lots of them).
On Ubuntu 12.04 SMART reported 4029 bad sectors. I often do ...
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Assessment is “failing” under id 5, Reallocated Sector Count, whose value comes out to be 561 sectors
I repeatedly receive a message from Disk Utility on screen, which says "A Hard Disk is reporting health problems."
On clicking the Examine button, I am taken towards a window,which says Disk failure ...
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Found bad sectors, what can I do now? Any way to find files/dirs affected?
I've run sudo badblocks -sv /dev/sdb1 on my desktop's 1,5TB HDD and it found 86 errors.
This is the output I got.
Also, this is the output of gSmartControl.
Is there any way to find which ...
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Smart Data Self-Test Failed
When I run the Smart Data Self-Test disk utility the result indicates Smart Self Test Failed. Yet when I look at the individual test, they all say OK. Did the test itself fail or did the disk fail ...
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Trying to copy an ext4 partition that has errors on it, to a new disk
I have a linux installation in a 50GB partition, on an old 80GB sata disk that is starting to show some errors in it's SMART status, and also, it's an old slow disk. So I want to copy it to a newer ...
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Why is my HDD going back from standy?
My hard drives, connected to Ubuntu server are producing the following log every exactly 5 minutes.
Nov 1 14:10:50 localhost kernel: [ 1602.884936] ata2.00: hard resetting link
Nov 1 14:10:51 ...
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How to enable SMART?
I want to conduct a SMART test on my drive but it was disabled. So, i used
sudo smartctl -s on /dev/sda
but the result was
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [i686-linux-3.2.0-26-generic] (local ...
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smartctl not returning on HBA that's secure-erasing a different drive
Whenever I run smartctl -i /dev/sd* where * is a drive that is plugged into the same host bus adapter as another drive that is currently being erased with an hdparm secure erase command, the smart ...
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SMART says disk failure is imminent due to bad blocks, what do I need to do?
I have on my hard drive 2 OSes: Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows Vista (I keep it just because of school). Everything was OK on both OSes, but one day on Ubuntu I was getting awkward noises from my notebooks' ...
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External drive hanging, load average through the roof
I have an external USB drive, and I run an hourly rsync to it as a backup. This has been working fine for years. This weekend, I got two new 2Tb internal drives, and decided it was time to ...
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SSD becomes hot, disk failure warning
I have a two weeks old SSD (Kingston SSDnow 64GB). Yesterday, the computer shutdown twice and after rebooting I was bombarded with disk failure warnings.
I usually take such warnings serious (and ...
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Reallocated Sector Count - is drive failure really imminent? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What to do if Disk Utility shows bad sectors pending in SMART?
I just recently installed Ubuntu (latest version) alongwise my Windows XP. First, after trying the Live ...
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SMART Status Data Interpretation - Disk Utility
Last week my external harddisk (Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB in a custom enclosure) showed signs of failure (Disk Utility SMART Pre-failure status - several bad sectors) and I decided to change it. I ...
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Contradictory information about HDD
From couple of days my HDD works slow. So i test my HDD using disk utility. It shows i have 1352 bad blocks.
SMART test says HDD health is good but shows a error "Reallocated Sector Count". So i ...
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Hard Drive Load Cycle Count
Does the load cycle count shown below, using SMART, show the total count of the hard drives lifetime? What is the maximum count?
Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 081 081 000 Old_age Always ...
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SMART status:— DISK FAILURE IS IMMINENT
I want to run the check file system tool, but for that I need to unmount the volume, I have just one partition, should I go ahead with unmount and repair. I am new to Ubuntu, so please help.(Image)
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What to do if Disk Utility shows bad sectors pending in SMART?
I have 12.04 32bit installed on my hard drive. Ubuntu is the only OS. I recently installed it after getting rid of Windows 7. When I run Disk Utility under SMART Status it says "disk has a few bad ...
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What should I do when hard “disk failure is imminent”?
I been using this before on back-up, but when I plugged it again, it goes like this, what should I do?
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LG-P700 (android phone) is recognized but cannot be mounted
Ubuntu 12.04 recognizes the android phone LG-P700 but cannot mount it, there's a message saying it cannot initialize the camera: -60
Would very much appreciate some hint!
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How do I automatically monitor SMART with external USB drives and warn if necessary?
My External USB drive died, and Ubuntu gave no indication that it there was a problem. It would be useful if the system gave a warning for failing drives, including external USB ones. Is there a way ...
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How do I get Disk Utility to read SMART data from USB drives?
When I plug in a external USB drive and want to check its S.M.A.R.T. status in Disk Utility (palimpsest) I cannot because the option is greyed out. Is there an option somewhere to enable this feature? ...
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Checking HD SMART status on a fresh install
On a fresh install of 12.04 what is the best/easiest way to see the SMART status of the hard-drive?
Previous ubuntu versions had a nice preinstalled GUI to do so, but I cannot seem to find it ...
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Is this drive failure or something else?
I have a year-old drive that's giving me trouble. Copying data to it fails after about 8-10GB of transfers. It spontaneously changes to 'read only'. It's properly formatted ext4, I'm the owner. ...
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Banshee smart playlist command line
This may be a long shot but I'm looking for a way to start a smart playlist at the moment of login.
At the moment I found how to start playing main tracks, a recorded .m3u, starting from the play ...
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I dropped my laptop. SMART says there are bad sectors. Can I fix this?
I have Ubuntu and Win7 both installed on my laptop.
I was working on Windows when I dropped the laptop from about 3.5feet in air. Ever since, windows is unable to boot. But Ubuntu works just fine.
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Are these sata errors dangerous?
I'm getting these errors ramdomly, and I don't know if its normal or not.
[39441.061856] ata3.00: failed to read SCR 1 (Emask=0x40)
[39441.061866] ata3.01: failed to read SCR 1 (Emask=0x40)
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SMART Disk Failure 05 - Reallocated Sector Count: Creating a Partition Ubuntu 12.04
I apologize if this question has been answered previously. I've checked through the "similar titles" but haven't exactly had any luck. I'm aware of the problem and I know the solution, I simply ...
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Random crashes when using SMART interactive whiteboards [closed]
I am in charge of the computer systems in our school and have set up a number of Ubuntu 11.10 machines in the classrooms and have a working Ubuntu Live-USB system in place for the students (Students ...
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Error Ubuntu 11.10 despues de instalar [Error after installing Ubuntu 11.10]
Instale Ubuntu 11.10, termino de instalar y no tiene nada, ni aplicaciones, ni esa barrita lateral de Unity, no tiene nada, ni si quiera la barra donde aparece la hora; ¿por qué? y me aparece un ...
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Banshee intelligent playlist including subfolders
Is it possible to create intelligent/smart playlist of folder "2011" with all it's subfolders?
I've tried to do this, but Banshee 2.2.1 seems not to go deeper for music files than to the specified ...
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Can not read OpenPGP card as non-root?
Same OpenPGP card and reader setup were working fine on Ubuntu 11.04 Natty. After upgrading to Ocelet with a clean install I ran into the basically the same issue this guy posted about here.
To ...
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Is my hard disk doomed?
My computer shut down suddenly and refuses to boot now.
I started it with an Ubuntu Live CD and it reported that a hard disk failure is imminent.
The error reported by SMART:
Reallocated Sector ...
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How to disable S.M.A.R.T. check for single drive?
I have external RAID array which do not support S.M.A.R.T. well and Ubuntu annoys me constantly with random warning about drive being bad, which it is not. I would like to disable S.M.A.R.T. test just ...
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Is Disk Utility reliable?
I'm using ubuntu 11.04. Disk utility is reporting I have a bad sector on my hard drive. Is this reliable?
I'm skeptical that it's reporting accurately because
When I googled "ubuntu disk utility ...
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How can I export all the mp3s from a playlist in Banshee?
I have all my music, unsorted in /home/blah/Music/. It's in random folders, which doesn't matter for me though since Banshee takes care of everything. I have a large playlist containing a good 2/3 of ...
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SMART failure predicted on Harddisk after ubuntu installation on my laptop
SMART failure predicted on Harddisk after ubuntu installation 11.04 desktop version.
Press F1 to continue.
I installed ubuntu .Restarted my PC.NOw it is saying above error on boot.
Whats more worse ...
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How can I check the health of my hard drive?
I had a bad experience on an old Dell computer where shortly after installing Ubuntu on it, the hard drive failed due to excessive loading/unloading cycles. What is the best way to check the health of ...
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AMD Raid SMART Tests Ubuntu Server
I have an AMD SB with Raid 1 set up through that. I installed Ubuntu Server with no problems. However I know through windows one can set up SMART Tests with AMD's software. Is there a way to run SMART ...
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How Do I interpret HDD S.M.A.R.T Results?
My laptop has recently started to become a bit unreliable, and for some reason I started to suspect that my HDD was starting to fail. After a bit of hunting on the internet, I found Ubuntu's Disk ...
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Hard disk failure error on SMART status. how can i fix it?
i am running ubuntu on my pc. i am receiving hard disk failure error on SMART status.
how can i fix it?
thanks.
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Do I need to replace my hard disk?
Whenever I start my computer Ubuntu pops up the following error:
A hard disk may be failing
one or more hard disk report health problems
A friend of mine ran some test and it was found that my hard ...
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System locking up with suspicious messages about hard disk
My system has started behaving strangely, intermittently locking up. I see messages like the following in syslog:
Nov 18 22:22:00 claypool kernel: [ 3428.078156] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 ...
