Are there any guidelines for interpreting smartctl output?
I cannot quite tell if the output below means imminent doom or get a new disk soon or don't worry about it.
Thanks
cmn
P.S. I would have posted an attachment, but I'm not allowed to for some reason.
smartctl version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: Maxtor 4R160L0
Serial Number: R414RLQE
Firmware Version: RAMB1TU0
User Capacity: 163,928,604,672 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 7
ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 0
Local Time is: Thu Aug 14 08:38:55 2008 EDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 118) The previous self-test completed having
the read element of the test failed.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 30) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 90) minutes.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 224 224 063 Pre-fail Always - 3735
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 31
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 253 253 063 Pre-fail Always - 0
6 Read_Channel_Margin 0x0001 253 253 100 Pre-fail Offline - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0027 239 235 187 Pre-fail Always - 51450
9 Power_On_Minutes 0x0032 210 210 000 Old_age Always - 711h+00m
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x002b 253 252 157 Pre-fail Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x002b 253 252 223 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 251 251 000 Old_age Always - 1169
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 45
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 19494
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0008 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0008 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 252 252 000 Old_age Offline - 1
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0008 199 199 000 Old_age Offline - 1
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 250 000 Old_age Always - 404
202 TA_Increase_Count 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
203 Run_Out_Cancel 0x000b 253 252 180 Pre-fail Always - 0
204 Shock_Count_Write_Opern 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
205 Shock_Rate_Write_Opern 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
207 Spin_High_Current 0x002a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
208 Spin_Buzz 0x002a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
209 Offline_Seek_Performnce 0x0024 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
99 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
100 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
101 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
Warning: ATA error count 661 inconsistent with error log pointer 5
ATA Error Count: 661 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)
CR = Command Register [HEX]
FR = Features Register [HEX]
SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
ER = Error register [HEX]
ST = Status register [HEX]
Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.
Error 661 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 9672 hours (403 days + 0 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 51 08 3f 00 b8 fa Error: UNC 8 sectors at LBA = 0x0ab8003f = 179830847
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
c8 00 08 3f 00 b8 fa 00 19:04:52.992 READ DMA
27 00 00 00 00 00 f0 08 19:04:52.976 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
ec 00 00 00 00 00 b0 0a 19:04:52.976 IDENTIFY DEVICE
ef 03 45 00 00 00 b0 08 19:04:52.976 SET FEATURES [Set transfer mode]
27 00 00 00 00 00 f0 08 19:04:52.960 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
Error 660 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 9672 hours (403 days + 0 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 51 08 3f 00 b8 fa Error: UNC 8 sectors at LBA = 0x0ab8003f = 179830847
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
c8 00 08 3f 00 b8 fa 00 19:04:51.616 READ DMA
27 00 00 00 00 00 f0 08 19:04:51.600 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
ec 00 00 00 00 00 b0 0a 19:04:51.600 IDENTIFY DEVICE
ef 03 45 00 00 00 b0 08 19:04:51.600 SET FEATURES [Set transfer mode]
27 00 00 00 00 00 f0 08 19:04:51.584 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
Error 659 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 9672 hours (403 days + 0 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 51 08 3f 00 b8 fa Error: UNC 8 sectors at LBA = 0x0ab8003f = 179830847
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
c8 00 08 3f 00 b8 fa 00 19:04:50.240 READ DMA
27 00 00 00 00 00 f0 08 19:04:50.224 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
ec 00 00 00 00 00 b0 0a 19:04:50.224 IDENTIFY DEVICE
ef 03 45 00 00 00 b0 08 19:04:50.224 SET FEATURES [Set transfer mode]
27 00 00 00 00 00 f0 08 19:04:50.224 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
Error 658 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 9672 hours (403 days + 0 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 51 08 3f 00 b8 fa Error: UNC 8 sectors at LBA = 0x0ab8003f = 179830847
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
c8 00 08 3f 00 b8 fa 00 19:04:48.880 READ DMA
27 00 00 00 00 00 f0 08 19:04:48.848 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
ec 00 00 00 00 00 b0 0a 19:04:48.848 IDENTIFY DEVICE
ef 03 45 00 00 00 b0 08 19:04:48.848 SET FEATURES [Set transfer mode]
27 00 00 00 00 00 f0 08 19:04:48.848 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
Error 657 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 9672 hours (403 days + 0 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 51 08 3f 00 b8 fa Error: UNC 8 sectors at LBA = 0x0ab8003f = 179830847
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
c8 00 08 3f 00 b8 fa 00 19:04:47.504 READ DMA
27 00 00 00 00 00 f0 08 19:04:47.488 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
ec 00 00 00 00 00 b0 0a 19:04:47.472 IDENTIFY DEVICE
ef 03 45 00 00 00 b0 08 19:04:47.472 SET FEATURES [Set transfer mode]
27 00 00 00 00 00 f0 08 19:04:47.472 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 60% 416 6164151
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
