[Linux-disciples] Lost Inodes and Hard Drive Failure Questions

[Adam Kessel]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 05:17:19PM -0400, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> > Once I get all the data off, I'm wondering what the best way is to
> > determine whether the drive just needs to be junked.  It's a 200.0G
> Have you looked at the SMART pre-failure attributes?

Good idea.  I've never before had drives that support SMART, but this one
does.  It looks like it recorded the errors from before, to wit:

Error 805 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 3338 hours
Error 804 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 3338 hours
Error 803 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 3338 hours
Error 802 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 3338 hours

Does anyone know a quick reference for what these errors mean?  Is it
meaningful?  I googled for smart errors etc. with no quick reference.

> > Interestingly, there is absolutely nothing in the logs indicating what
> > actually went wrong.  I woke up one day to find the drive remounted
> Probably there was a message sent to syslog, but it couldn't write the
> log file on the bad drive.

Yes, that makes sense, I'm sure you're right.
-- 
Adam Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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