Re: SATA - System Freezes

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:14:08 -0400
Jorge Fábregas <jorge fabregas gmail com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 17 June 2008 04:40:25 pm Alan Cox wrote:
> > What does smart utils have to say about the drive last logged errors ?
> 
> Arrrrgh thanks Alan. I forgot about S.M.A.R.T..but shame on me:  smartd  isn't 
> running on my machine (not enabled INIT-wise).  I just started it and enabled 
> it via chkconfig.
> 
> Anyway, I ran some tests using smartctl and it looks fine.  The "last logged 
> errors" you mention would be in some db on my filesystem right?  The memory 
> on the drive (for SMART stuff) won't store any historical information right?

The drive itself stores the last few errored/failed commands, but often
only until power cycled. Its very useful if you get a funny behaviour and
want to see how the drive saw it.