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smartctl controls the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives.

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Out-of-order lifetimes in SMART self-test log

I was peeking at a server's SMART log, and noticed this (emphasis mine): SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline …
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Does "smartctl -H or -all" run anything against disks or just poll data?

I am setting up Smart monitoring currently and I had a question regarding the command smartctl -H /dev/sda === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Health Status: OK Does this actually run anything against the disk, or does it just poll the…
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Ran smartctl on my drive, not sure if this is good or bad

I've been having problems with a drive in my Synology diskstation. I saw the following errors pop up on my /var/log/messages: ata6.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen ata6.00: failed command: SMART ata6.00: cmd…
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mdadm reports faulty disk, but smart doesn't find problems

I've got a 9 disk raid 5 array. Today i got a mail from my server: This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm running on Eldorado A Fail event had been detected on md device /dev/md0. It could be related to component device…
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smartctl or hddtemp for xvda

I'm trying to check the state of the drives on a remote server running Debian wheezy. I'm using a software RAID10 on top of, I guess, xen, since the entries in /dev are /dev/xvda and /dev/xvdb But it I try smartctl -a /dev/xvda I get /dev/xvda:…
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A faulty Caviar Blue hard drive?

We have a small "homemade" server running fully updated Debian Wheezy (amd64). One hard drive installed: WDC WD6400AAKS. The motherboard is ASUS M4N68T V2. The usual load: CPU: an average of 20% Each week about 50GB of additional space is occupied.…
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Can smart data be read from proc on Linux?

I see there is a virtual file /proc/ide/hda/smart_values and I imagine it contains the smart data that smartmontools reads with the smartctl command. Can I read that data with my own eyes? I see a bunch of numbers in the file and would like to…
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Cannot perform smartctl self-test after migrating servers from SLES to Scientific Linux

I maintain several Linux servers, that we are in the process of migrating from SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (version 10.4) to Scientific Linux (version 5.9). The six SAS hard drives on each machine are connected to an Adaptec AAC-RAID controller,…
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Interpret smartctl -a output

Please help me understand this root@bdb16e4bb2e3:/opt/scrutiny# smartctl --all /dev/sdb smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [aarch64-linux-5.15.0-1024-raspi] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org ===…
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Can I clear a smard critical temperature notice from 7 months ago?

I have an Ubuntu 22.04 Server which is mailing me every 24 hours with the following; I'd had alerts for this host filtered and missed it until now: This message was generated by the smartd daemon running on: host name: HOSTNAME DNS domain:…
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Drive issues? Bus error (core dumped) and smartctl *and dmesg logs

Troubleshooting a failed archive extraction. Getting a "Bus error (core dumped)". Thinking it may be a possible disk issue so the smartctl output is below - not sure what to make of it. EDIT: Here's the full output of smartctl -a smartctl 7.1…
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Drive to fail in 24 hours - Possible Hard Drive Failure Soon

Here's what the smartctls is saying. How accurate is the 24 hours failure? Any successful fixes to the Reallocated_Sector_Ct fail? Here's what I got from running the attributes command: == START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data…
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ATA error count increased from 0 to 15 however Current_Pending_Sector is 0

I got below error via an email 2 weeks back: The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], ATA error count increased from 0 to 15 Device info: ST1000LM035-1RK172, S/N:WCB0Z83A, WWN:5-000c50-09c2b85e7,…
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Identify HDD failure by sound + Is it safe to run smartctl on a mounted RAID1?

Basically, I have two WD HDDs in a programmatic RAID1 (no special hardware): $ lsscsi --verbose [0:0:0:0] disk ATA WDC WD10EFRX-68F 0A82 /dev/sda dir: /sys/bus/scsi/devices/0:0:0:0 …
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how to set automatic tests with smartd for Broadcom / LSI SAS2008 controller

I have a server that I want to set up automatic tests with smartd for hdd. From what I see this is my controller 81:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] (rev 03) #ls -al /sys/block/sd* |…
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