`<div dir="ltr">We've started running smartctl to try to catch sata drive failures earlier. it seems to avoid mayhem in our experience.<div> -nld</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Paul B. Henson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:henson@acm.org" target="_blank">henson@acm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 01:45:46PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote:<br>
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> make sure I don't get any more errors. Is it a pretty sure bet that the disk<br>
> is going bad, or should I take the time/trouble to pull it out and run<br>
> diagnostics on it on a separate machine before RMA'ing it?<br>
<br>
</div>Definitely a bad disk, I yanked it out and stuck it in a linux box to<br>
test, it immediately failed a short smart test:<br>
<br>
Self-test execution status: ( 116) The previous self-test completed having<br>
the read element of the test<br>
failed.<br>
[...]<br>
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1<br>
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA _of_first_error<br>
# 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 40% 1445 # 3655496<br>
<br>
Submitting an advance RMA request through Western Digital was pretty<br>
painless, hopefully the replacement will show up shortly. Other than the<br>
controller failing and requiring a hard reboot about what I'd expect<br>
from a dead drive...<br>
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