SATA - System Freezes
Alan Cox
alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Tue Jun 17 22:26:56 UTC 2008
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:14:08 -0400
Jorge Fábregas <jorge.fabregas at 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.
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