[OT] Smartd: Worth the effort

[Angela Kahealani]

On Sunday 2004-08-29 10:29, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 11:57, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > >     Just thinking out loud...as I run "chkconfig smartd off"...
> >
> > I'm surprised it worked at all on a drive that old but if
> > you don't take a logfile entry about a change as a warning
> > what do you expect?

On a more modern drive we get things like this:

/dev/hde :
   1 Time(s): SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed 
from 59 to 60  
   1 Time(s): SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed 
from 59 to 61  
   1 Time(s): SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed 
from 60 to 59  
   3 Time(s): SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed 
from 60 to 61  
   2 Time(s): SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed 
from 61 to 60  
   1 Time(s): SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed 
from 61 to 62  
   1 Time(s): SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed 
from 62 to 61  
   1 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed 
from 29 to 49  
   1 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed 
from 49 to 52  
   3 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed 
from 52 to 53  
   1 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed 
from 52 to 54  
   2 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed 
from 53 to 52  
   3 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed 
from 53 to 54  
   1 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed 
from 54 to 52  
   2 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed 
from 54 to 53  
   1 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed 
from 59 to 60  
   1 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed 
from 59 to 61  
   1 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed 
from 60 to 59  
   3 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed 
from 60 to 61  
   2 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed 
from 61 to 60  
   1 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed 
from 61 to 62  
   1 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed 
from 62 to 61  
   1 Time(s): is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.  
   1 Time(s): not found in smartd database.  
   1 Time(s): opened  

/dev/hdg :
   1 Time(s): SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed 
from 58 to 59  
   1 Time(s): SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed 
from 59 to 58  
   4 Time(s): SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed 
from 59 to 60  
   4 Time(s): SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed 
from 60 to 59  
   1 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed 
from 29 to 48  
   1 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed 
from 48 to 51  
   1 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed 
from 51 to 52  
   1 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed 
from 51 to 53  
   1 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed 
from 52 to 51  
   3 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed 
from 52 to 53  
   3 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed 
from 53 to 52  
   1 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed 
from 58 to 59  
   1 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed 
from 59 to 58  
   4 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed 
from 59 to 60  
   4 Time(s): SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed 
from 60 to 59  
   1 Time(s): is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.  
   1 Time(s): not found in smartd database.  
   1 Time(s): opened  


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