Since the docs don't make it really obvious how to do a spot check:<br><br>[root@sergeant root]# smartctl -t short /dev/hda<br>smartctl version 5.21 Copyright (C) 2002-3 Bruce Allen<br>Home page is <a href="http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/">
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/</a><br><br>=== START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===<br>Sending command: "Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in off-line mode".<br>Drive command "Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in off-line mode" successful.
<br>Testing has begun.<br>Please wait 1 minutes for test to complete.<br>Test will complete after Wed May 31 09:27:42 2006<br><br>Use smartctl -X to abort test.<br>[root@sergeant root]# smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda<br>smartctl version
5.21 Copyright (C) 2002-3 Bruce Allen<br>Home page is <a href="http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/">http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/</a><br><br>=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===<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 without error 00% 30579 -<br># 2 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 29284 -
<br># 3 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 28500 -<br><br><br>You may want to do "-t long" instead of short, it takes a while to execute but is more thorough.<br><br>Sean<br><br><div>
<span class="gmail_quote">On 5/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Lange</b> <<a href="mailto:john.lange@open-it.ca">john.lange@open-it.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Those errors are more likely signs of failing drive.<br><br>You should use the smartmontools to do a status check on your drive.<br><br><a href="http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/">http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
</a><br><br>Hard drives have had SMART technology for years and Linux has had these<br>tools for just about as long yet no distro (that I'm aware of) activates<br>smart monitoring by default. That is a real shame since they are so
<br>valuable.<br><br>--<br>John Lange<br>OpenIT ltd. <a href="http://www.Open-IT.ca">www.Open-IT.ca</a> (204) 885 0872<br>VoIP, Web services, Linux Consulting, Server Co-Location<br><br>On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 15:20 -0500, schwartz wrote:
<br>> I'm getting weird DMA errors on my Fedora Core 5 computer.<br>> The motherboard is an ASRock P4VM800 with 512MB DDR<br>> Celeron 2533 MHz Model 4<br>> hard drive is a Hitachi 7K80 7200 rpm parallel-ATA 80 Gig.
<br>> Fedora is installed on /dev/hda7 9.4 Gig partition ext3<br>> The DMA error message shows up during big file,<br>> or multiple file, copying from one directory to another,<br>> and during bootup. dmesg shows this message:
<br>> cd ..hda: dma_intr: status=0x51<br>> { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }<br>> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriverStatus Error BadCCR }<br>> ide: failed opcode was: unknown<br>> Sometimes the error message shows up at one point
<br>> in the boot process, sometimes in another. During really<br>> big copies, the DMA error message is quite frequent.<br>> I also have XP, 98SE, and Slackware on the machine<br>> but so far none of them have this error, or maybe they're
<br>> not telling.<br>> Can anyone tell me how to deal with this problem?<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Roundtable mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Roundtable@muug.mb.ca">
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